04129oam 22006492c 450 991051165640332120211006023257.01-4411-7338-21-4742-1153-41-283-73610-11-4411-9928-410.5040/9781474211536(CKB)2670000000238837(EBL)1014747(OCoLC)809910949(SSID)ssj0000741904(PQKBManifestationID)12348786(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000741904(PQKBWorkID)10742871(PQKB)10970214(MiAaPQ)EBC1014747(OCoLC)1138651012(UtOrBLW)bpp09257469(MiAaPQ)EBC6160551(EXLCZ)99267000000023883720120222d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe South Pacific narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London race, class, imperialism Lawrence PhillipsNew York Continuum 2012.1 online resource (225 p.)Continuum literary studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4725-2255-9 1-4411-9956-X Includes bibliographical references and index'Race', class and imperialism in Stevenson's The amateur emigrant -- Jack London's The people of the abyss: socialism, imperialism and the bourgeois ethnographer -- Death, disease and paradise: a parable of imperial expansion -- The inequities of trade: adventure narratives, ethics, and imperial commerce in Robert Louis Stevenson's The wrecker -- The indignity of labour: Jack London's adventure and plantation labour in the Solomon Islands -- Fragments of empire, fractured identitiesAcknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Race', Class and Imperialism in Stevenson's The Amateur Emigrant -- 3. Jack London's The People of the Abyss: Socialism, Imperialism and the Bourgeois Ethnographer -- 4. Death, Disease and Paradise: A Parable of Imperial Expansion -- 5. The Inequities of Trade: Adventure Narratives, Ethics, and Imperial Commerce in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Wrecker -- 6. The Indignity of Labour: Jack London's Adventure and Plantation Labour in the Solomon Islands -- 7. Fragments of Empire, Fractured Identities -- 8. Afterword -- Bibliography -- IndexFrom 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London were uniquely placed to witness and record the imperial struggle for the South Pacific. Engaging the major European colonial empires and the USA, the struggle questioned ideas of liberty, racial identity and class like few other arenas of the time. Exploring a unique moment in South Pacific and Western history through the work of Stevenson and London, this study assesses the impact of their national identities on works like The Amateur Emigrant and Adventure; discusses their attitudes towards colonialism, race and class; shows how they negotiated different cultures and peoples in their writing and considers where both writers are placed in the Western tradition of writing about the Pacific. By contextualizing Stevenson's and London's South Pacific work, this study reveals two critical voices of late nineteenth-century and early 20th-century colonialism that deserve to stand beside their contemporary Joseph Conrad in shaping contemporary attitudes towards imperialism, race, and class.Bloomsbury literary studies series.Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900Imperialism in literatureIslands of the PacificIn literatureOceaniaIn literatureImperialism in literature.823/.809Phillips Lawrence(Lawrence Alfred),1966-1066628UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910511656403321The South Pacific narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London2549637UNINA