02678nam 2200529 450 991081913570332120150504011026.01-4985-1514-2(CKB)2670000000610746(EBL)2033803(SSID)ssj0001482937(PQKBManifestationID)12625289(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001482937(PQKBWorkID)11423944(PQKB)10434868(MiAaPQ)EBC2033803(EXLCZ)99267000000061074620150515h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe South Seas a reception history from Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour /Sean Brawley and Chris DixonLanham, [Maryland] :Lexington Books,2015.©20151 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.Print version: Brawley, Sean, 1966- South Seas : a reception history from Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour. Lanham, [Maryland] : Lexington Books, c2015 xvii, 301 pages 9780739193358 2015001597 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 EscapesChapter Thirteen: HMAV Bounty and the Great DepressionChapter Fourteen: Pardon My Sarong; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors<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>OceaniaIn literatureOceaniaIn artOceaniaHistoryOceaniaIn motion pictures700/.45895Brawley Sean1966-1651869Dixon Chris1960-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819135703321The South Seas4002107UNINA