Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Impressions Photography and Travel Writing, 1888-1894 /

• Main Author: Manfredi, Carla (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Photography.; Culture.; Australasia.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Australasian Culture.

This book tackles photography's role during Robert Louis Stevenson's travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family's previously unpublished photographs. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book integrates photographs with letters, non-fictio...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Stevenson and Early Photography in the Pacific Islands
• 2. "We are Savages": Cannibal Performances in the Marquesas
• 3. "An Extraordinary State of Affairs": the Hawaiian Embassy to Sāmoa
• 4. "Incongruities of Scale": Encountering the Atolls of Kiribati
• 5. "Native Movement": Islanders and the Janet Nicoll
• 6. "Little House in the Bush": Specters of Vailima
• 7. Conclusion
• 8. Appendix: About the Robert Louis Stevenson's Photograph Albums.