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The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London - Race, Class, Imperialism (Paperback)
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The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London - Race, Class, Imperialism (Paperback)
Series: Continuum Literary Studies
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From 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.
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