Intimate Strangers - Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters

Informationen zum Autor Vanessa Smith teaches in the Department of English at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (1998) and co-editor of Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology 1680–1900 (2000) and Islands in History and Representation (2003). Klappentext A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific. Zusammenfassung Fascinating study of the the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific. Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that underpinned the colonial encounter from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767 through the voyages of Cook and Bligh. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: amicable signs; Part I. Making Contact: 1. Crowd scenes; 2. Receiving strangers; 3. Calculated affection; 4. Performance anxieties; Part II. Particular Friendships: 5. Fellow traveling; 6. Ruinous friendships; 7. Prizeable companions.

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa Smith, Vanessa (University of Sydney) Smith, Smith Vanessa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521437516
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43751-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Empir; Critical Perspectives on Empire; Critical Perspectives on Empir
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, Geographical discovery and exploration, Australasian and Pacific history, Oceania, Oceania / Pacific Islands