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Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys' Adventure Novel (Paperback)
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Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys' Adventure Novel (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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Attending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its
connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates
how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms,
with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure
tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical
narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that
missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the
working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that
are legible in the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel, even as
that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with
the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R.
M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of
the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British
children's textual interactions with the South Pacific and its
peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray
British presence in imperial spaces as a moral imperative, our
understanding of the "adventurer" is transformed from the plucky
explorer to the cynical mercenary through Robert Louis Stevenson,
who provides a late-nineteenth-century critique of the imperial and
missionary assumptions that subtended the mid-Victorian boys'
adventure novel of his youth.
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