South Seas a Reception Historycb

Informationen zum Autor By Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon Klappentext The South Seas is an innovative work of cultural history, tracing the ways in which the idea of "the South Seas" has been understood and transmitted through Western culture since the eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung The South Seas is an innovative work of cultural history, tracing the ways in which the idea of “the South Seas” has been understood and transmitted through Western culture since the eighteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Beginnings: Defoe, Dampier, and DiscoveryChapter 2: America's South SeasChapter 3: Herman Melville's Pacific ImaginingsChapter 4: San Francisco, Art, and Robert Louis StevensonChapter 5: Finding New GuineaChapter 6: The Colonial Endeavor and Australia's South SeasChapter 7: The Fair, the Stage, and the SongChapter 8: The Great War and the Lost GenerationChapter 9: A South Seas Education: Platform Speakers, National Geographic, and Margaret MeadChapter 10: South Seas TourismChapter 11: Hollywood Encounters the South SeasChapter 12: Cinematic Escapes: The South Seas Adventure FilmChapter 13: HMAV Bounty and the Great DepressionChapter 14: Pardon My Sarong: The Arrival of Dorothy Lamour

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• Authors: Sean Brawley, Sean (University of New South Wales) Brawley, Brawley Sean, Chris Dixon, Dixon Chris
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9780739193358
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9335-8
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, ART / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian, Literary studies: general, Oceania, The arts: general topics