Oceania and the Victorian imagination : where all things are possible / edited by Richard D. Fulton and Peter H. Hoffenberg.

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TextPublication details: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

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online resource

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1409457125
9781409457121
1306149762
9781306149761

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820.9/35895 23

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PR468.O24 O24 2013

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pt. 1. Travel, exhibitions and photography -- pt. 2. Fiction and the pacific -- pt. 3. Childhood and children.

Summary: Focusing on Oceania's impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature and the culture of childhood, this collection examines the Victorians' engagement with the Pacific. Whether intriguing accounts of its exotic peoples, flora, fauna and natural history were enough in and of themselves or whether they provoked a desire to venture forth, Oceania, or the Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Travel, exhibitions and photography -- pt. 2. Fiction and the pacific -- pt. 3. Childhood and children.

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Focusing on Oceania's impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature and the culture of childhood, this collection examines the Victorians' engagement with the Pacific. Whether intriguing accounts of its exotic peoples, flora, fauna and natural history were enough in and of themselves or whether they provoked a desire to venture forth, Oceania, or the Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination.

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