With contributions from an international range of leading authorities on literature, history, art and geography, this book discusses the cultural significance of islands.
With contributions from an international range of leading authorities on literature, history, art and geography, this book discusses the cultural significance of islands.
Rod Edmond was born and grew up in New Zealand. Following graduate work at Oxford University he is currently a Reader in Nineteenth Century and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent. He has published on Victorian and Modernist literature, contemporary Pacific and New Zealand writing and extensively in the field of Eighteenth - Twentieth Century Colonial Discourse Studies. He is the author of Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse From Cook to Gauguin (1997) and is currently completing a book on colonialism and disease, with particular reference to leprosy. Vanessa Smith is an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in the School of English, Art History, Film and Media at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (1998) and co-editor, with Jonathan Lamb and Nicholas Thomas, of Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology 1680-1900 (2000).
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List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Editors' introduction 1 Taking history offshore: Atlantic islands in European minds, 1400 1800 /JOHN R. GILLIS 2 Island bounds /GILLIAN BEER 3 The cane land isles': commerce and empire in late eighteenthcentury georgic and pastoral poetry /MARKMAN ELLIS 4 Bulama and Sierra Leone: utopian islands and visionary interiors /DEIRDRE COLEMAN 5 Pacific island encounters and the German invention of race /VANESSA AGNEW 6 Cook in Tonga: terms of trade /HARRIET GUEST 7 Pitcairn's 'guilty stock': the island as breeding ground /VANESSA SMITH 8 Abject bodies / abject sites: leper islands in the high imperial era /ROD EDMOND 9 Derek Walcott's Omeros: representing St Lucia, re presenting Homer /ROGER MOSS 10 The island of wandering souls: processes of creolisation, politics of emancipation and the problematic of absence on Reunion Island /FRANQOISE VERGES 11 God save the Falklands: postcolonial geographies of the Falklands /Malvinas /KLAUS DODDS 12 The gilded cage: from utopia to monad in Australia's island Imaginary /ELIZABETH MCMAHON 13 Afterword /GREG DENING Bibliography Index.
List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Editors' introduction 1 Taking history offshore: Atlantic islands in European minds, 1400 1800 /JOHN R. GILLIS 2 Island bounds /GILLIAN BEER 3 The cane land isles': commerce and empire in late eighteenthcentury georgic and pastoral poetry /MARKMAN ELLIS 4 Bulama and Sierra Leone: utopian islands and visionary interiors /DEIRDRE COLEMAN 5 Pacific island encounters and the German invention of race /VANESSA AGNEW 6 Cook in Tonga: terms of trade /HARRIET GUEST 7 Pitcairn's 'guilty stock': the island as breeding ground /VANESSA SMITH 8 Abject bodies / abject sites: leper islands in the high imperial era /ROD EDMOND 9 Derek Walcott's Omeros: representing St Lucia, re presenting Homer /ROGER MOSS 10 The island of wandering souls: processes of creolisation, politics of emancipation and the problematic of absence on Reunion Island /FRANQOISE VERGES 11 God save the Falklands: postcolonial geographies of the Falklands /Malvinas /KLAUS DODDS 12 The gilded cage: from utopia to monad in Australia's island Imaginary /ELIZABETH MCMAHON 13 Afterword /GREG DENING Bibliography Index.
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