Robert Louis Stevenson and the colonial imagination
By: Ann C. Colley.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation; Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Political and social views; Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Knowledge -- Oceania; Missionaries in literature; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Islands of the Pacific -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Islands of the Pacific -- In literature; Oceania -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Stevenson and the South Sea missionaries; title: Stevenson's pyjamas; title: Colonies of memory; title: Lighting up the darkness; title: Stevenson's political imagination; title: The juvenile missionary magazines and A child's garden of verses.