LEADER 04129oam 22006492c 450 001 9910511656403321 005 20211006023257.0 010 $a1-4411-7338-2 010 $a1-4742-1153-4 010 $a1-283-73610-1 010 $a1-4411-9928-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474211536 035 $a(CKB)2670000000238837 035 $a(EBL)1014747 035 $a(OCoLC)809910949 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000741904 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12348786 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000741904 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10742871 035 $a(PQKB)10970214 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1014747 035 $a(OCoLC)1138651012 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09257469 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6160551 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000238837 100 $a20120222d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe South Pacific narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London $erace, class, imperialism $fLawrence Phillips 210 1$aNew York $cContinuum $d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 0 $aContinuum literary studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4725-2255-9 311 $a1-4411-9956-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index 327 $a'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 identities 327 $aAcknowledgments -- 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 -- Index 330 8 $aFrom 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London were uniquely placed to witness and record the imperial struggle for the South Pacific. Engaging the major European colonial empires and the USA, the struggle questioned ideas of liberty, racial identity and class like few other arenas of the time. Exploring a unique moment in South Pacific and Western history through the work of Stevenson and London, this study assesses the impact of their national identities on works like The Amateur Emigrant and Adventure; discusses their attitudes towards colonialism, race and class; shows how they negotiated different cultures and peoples in their writing and considers where both writers are placed in the Western tradition of writing about the Pacific. By contextualizing Stevenson's and London's South Pacific work, this study reveals two critical voices of late nineteenth-century and early 20th-century colonialism that deserve to stand beside their contemporary Joseph Conrad in shaping contemporary attitudes towards imperialism, race, and class. 410 0$aBloomsbury literary studies series. 606 $2Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 606 $aImperialism in literature 607 $aIslands of the Pacific$xIn literature 607 $aOceania$xIn literature 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 676 $a823/.809 700 $aPhillips$b Lawrence$g(Lawrence Alfred),$f1966-$01066628 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511656403321 996 $aThe South Pacific narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London$92549637 997 $aUNINA