South Seas - A Reception History From Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Beginnings: Defoe, Dampier, and Discovery
Chapter 2: America's South Seas
Chapter 3: Herman Melville's Pacific Imaginings
Chapter 4: San Francisco, Art, and Robert Louis Stevenson
Chapter 5: Finding New Guinea
Chapter 6: The Colonial Endeavor and Australia's South Seas
Chapter 7: The Fair, the Stage, and the Song
Chapter 8: The Great War and the Lost Generation
Chapter 9: A South Seas Education: Platform Speakers, National Geographic, and Margaret Mead
Chapter 10: South Seas Tourism
Chapter 11: Hollywood Encounters the South Seas
Chapter 12: Cinematic Escapes: The South Seas Adventure Film
Chapter 13: HMAV Bounty and the Great Depression
Chapter 14: Pardon My Sarong: The Arrival of Dorothy Lamour

About the author

By Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: BRAWLEY, Sean Brawley, Sean Dixon Brawley, Brawley Sean, Dixon, Chris Dixon, Dixon Chris
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781498515146
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1514-6
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; 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, Oceania / Pacific Islands