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Fuller, Jennifer.

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From Robinson Crusoe to Dr. Moreau: Nineteenth century Pacific Island narratives and their contexts.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	From Robinson Crusoe to Dr. Moreau: Nineteenth century Pacific Island narratives and their contexts./
作者:	Fuller, Jennifer.
面頁冊數:	323 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-08A(E).
標題:	Literature, English. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3558740
ISBN:	9781303032776

From Robinson Crusoe to Dr. Moreau: Nineteenth century Pacific Island narratives and their contexts.
Fuller, Jennifer.

From Robinson Crusoe to Dr. Moreau: Nineteenth century Pacific Island narratives and their contexts. - 323 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Tulsa, 2013.

This dissertation explores how British interactions with the Pacific islands over the course of the nineteenth century led the British to interrogate their identity as defined by principles of religious, racial, cultural, and economic superiority. As official bureaucratic interference was limited, control of the Pacific islands was ceded alternately to missionaries, independent traders, and adventurers. As the often violent and exploitive stories of traders and adventurers began to replace the religious dialogues of missionaries, the British began to re--evaluate the inherently problematic claims of imperial superiority based on their position as a "civilizing" force. This dissertation argues that by the turn of the century the British had transitioned from seeing themselves as religious ambassadors on a mission to "civilize" islanders to interrogating both the exploitive practices embodied in the "civilizing mission" and the very ideas of "civilized" and "savage" behavior.

ISBN: 9781303032776Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

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520 $a In Chapter One, I argue that early British narratives of the Pacific, missionary texts and The Swiss Family Robinson, presented their protagonists as envoys of God and British "civilization" working to convert the native peoples, survive the harsh conditions, and build successful settlements that balanced the needs of Christ and commerce. My second chapter explores the influx of independent traders to the islands, resulting in a hybrid of travel writing and adventure fiction which became increasingly popular and primarily served as imperial propaganda encouraging boys to participate in island trade for the developing empire. Chapter Three examines the transition to a darker form of Pacific fiction as exemplified by Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson; in these later fictions, the initial optimism of Pacific conquest gave way to increasing doubts about inherent British superiority over South Seas islanders. Dickens uses the Pacific to challenge the boundaries between "civilization" and "savagery" and to provide scathing social commentary on contemporary London. Stevenson, by contrast, provides a more specific criticism of the British influence in the islands of Samoa: he implies that the British could only hope to achieve peace by living in both the commercial world of the trader and the native world of the islander. My fourth chapter evaluates Joseph Conrad"s late Pacific stories which demonize trade by focusing on the damage it causes to Europeans. In Conrad"s fiction, trade is a destructive force that degrades men, taints women, and poisons territory. In my final chapter, I show the development of three distinct forms of British Pacific degeneration: commercial, physical, and cultural. By the turn of the century, the British no longer viewed the Pacific islands as a paradise but as a destructive force that would turn "civilized" men into "savages."
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