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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788123003321

Autore

Brawley Sean <1966->

Titolo

The South Seas : a reception history from Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour / / Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-1514-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

700/.45895

Soggetti

Oceania In literature

Oceania In art

Oceania History

Oceania In motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

<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>