Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Moving Missions and Novel Settlements: Early British Pacific Propaganda (1796–1866)
- 2 Adventures in the Pacific: The Influence of Trade on the South Seas Novel
- 3 Islands of Discovery: Scientific Curiosity in the Works of Darwin, Huxley and Wells
- 4 The Price of Paradise: Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and British Expansion in the Pacific
- 5 The Islanders Speak: Pacific Reflections in the British Press
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2017
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Moving Missions and Novel Settlements: Early British Pacific Propaganda (1796–1866)
- 2 Adventures in the Pacific: The Influence of Trade on the South Seas Novel
- 3 Islands of Discovery: Scientific Curiosity in the Works of Darwin, Huxley and Wells
- 4 The Price of Paradise: Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and British Expansion in the Pacific
- 5 The Islanders Speak: Pacific Reflections in the British Press
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Dark ParadisePacific Islands in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination, pp. viii - xPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2016