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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Oceania and the Victorian Imagination : Where All Things Are Possible
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'Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was central to the Pacific’s effects, as youthful encounters at exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.'

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Contents

* Contents derived from the Farnham, Surrey,
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'Greater Britain' : Late Imperial Travel Writing and the Settler Colonies, Anna Johnston , single work criticism (p. 31-44)
'The White Lady and the Brown Women' : Colonial Masculinity and Domesticity in Louis Becke's By Reef and Palm, Sumangala Bhattacharya , single work criticism (p. 79-92)

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    • Farnham, Surrey,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Ashgate ,
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: x, 209 pp.
      Description: illus.
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      • Published 28 March 2013
      ISBN: 9781472404701 (ebk - ePUB), 1409457125 (ebk - PDF), 147240470X (ebk - ePUB), 9781409457114 (hardcover : alk. paper), 9781409457121 (ebk - PDF), 1409457117 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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