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

• Autore: Brawley Sean <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 700/.45895
• Soggetto geografico: Oceania In literature; Oceania In art; Oceania History; Oceania In motion pictures
• Persona (resp. second.): DixonChris <1960->
• 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>
• Titolo autorizzato: The South Seas
• ISBN: 1-4985-1514-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788123003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II