Vernon Lee Walker Vernon Lee Walker i(A1991 works by)
Born: Established: 1857 ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Bad Colonists : The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke Louis Becke , Vernon Lee Walker , Nicholas Thomas (editor), Richard Eves (editor), Durham : Duke University Press , 1999 Z519656 1999 anthology correspondence criticism Contains letters from Louis Becke and Vernon Lee Walker, addressed mainly to their mothers. The editors' preface describes the book as 'a work of experimental history' exploring, firstly, the degeneration of the self in tropical environments 'beyond civility' nnd, secondly, the significance of personal letters in 'self-fashioning'. The letters are accompanied by extensive commentary.
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