Literary Culture and the Pacific
Subtitle: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521022989
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; European literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European literature--19th century--History an; European literature--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; Culture conflict in literature; Exoticism in literature
First sentence: When the missionary James Hadfield published the narrative of the beachcomber William Diaper in 1928, under the title Cannibal Jack: the true autobiography of a white man in the South Seas, he emphasised the uniqueness of the record.