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Brawley Sean <1966-> |
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Titolo |
The South Seas : a reception history from Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour / / Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon |
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Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Oceania In literature |
Oceania In art |
Oceania History |
Oceania In motion pictures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Beginnings; Chapter Two: America's South Seas; Chapter Three: Herman Melville's Pacific Imaginings; Chapter Four: San Francisco, Art, and Robert Louis Stevenson; Chapter Five: Finding New Guinea; Chapter Six: The Colonial Endeavor and Australia's South Seas; Chapter Seven: The Fair, the Stage, and the Song; Chapter Eight: The Great War and the Lost Generation; Chapter Nine: A South Seas Education; Chapter Ten: South Seas Tourism; Chapter Eleven: Hollywood Encounters the South Seas; Chapter Twelve: Cinematic Escapes |
Chapter Thirteen: HMAV Bounty and the Great DepressionChapter Fourteen: Pardon My Sarong; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors |
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<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The South Seas </span><span>is an innovative work of cultural history, tracing the ways in which the idea of "the South Seas" has been understood and transmitted through Western culture since the eighteenth century. </span></span> |
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