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Literary Culture and the Pacific : Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Literary Culture and the Pacific NineteenthCentury Textual Encounters - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Author: Vanessa Smith
This book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific that depict Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print and how they were appropriated and interrogated by Pacific peoples. Examining accounts by beachcombers and missionaries, and offering a detailed...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521573597
ISBN-10: 0521573599
Publication Date: 1/13/1998
Pages: 312
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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