Oceania and the Victorian Imagination Where All Things Are Possible

Introduction, Richard D. Fulton, Peter H. Hofenberg; Part 1 Travel, Exhibitions and Photography; Chapter 1 Pacific Phantasmagorias: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Photography, Carla Manfredi; Chapter 2 “Greater Britain”: Late Imperial Travel Writing and the Settler Colonies, Anna Johnston; Chapter 3 The South Seas Exhibit at the Chicago World’s Fair, 1893, Mandy Treagus; Chapter 4 Displaying an Oceanic Nation and Society: The Kingdom of Hawai?i at Nineteenth-Century International Exhibitions, Peter H. Hoffenberg; Part 2 Fiction and the Pacific; Chapter 5 “The White Lady and the Brown Woman”: Colonial Masculinity and Domesticity in Louis Becke’s By Reef and Palm (1894), Sumangala Bhattacharya; Chapter 6 Who’s Who in “The Isle of Voices”? How Victorian Robert Louis Stevenson Viewed Pacific Islanders’ Perceptions of Victorians and of Themselves, Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega; Chapter 7 At Home in the Empire: Domesticity and Masculine Identity in Almayer’s Folly and “The Beach of Falesá”, Ingrid Ranum; Chapter 8 Isolation and Variation on Doctor Moreau’s Oceanic Island, Genie Babb; Part 3 Childhood and Children; Chapter 9 Cooks and Queens and Dreams: The South Sea Islands as Fairy Islands of Fancy, Michelle Patricia Beissel Heath; Chapter 10 The South Seas in Mid-Victorian Children’s Imagination, Richard D. Fulton; Chapter 11 Watermarks on The Coral Island: The Pacific Island Missionary as Children’s Hero, Michelle Elleray; Chapter 12 “Turned topsy-turvy”: William Howitt, Antipodean Colonial Space and Victorian Children’s Literature, Judith Johnston;

Biography

Richard D. Fulton is Vice Chancellor at the University of Hawai'i-Windward Community College, USA, and Peter H. Hoffenberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa, USA.

'Does Oceania and the Victorian Imagination meet the readers’ expecta­tions? Indeed it does, offering a wealth of data, detailed information and cross-references that will aid further study. There is a select bibliography and a very useful, detailed index. This book will also encourage the reader to purchase and read more of the novels mentioned ... This book cannot be ignored for future discussions regard­ing the history of contact between Europeans and Pacific Islanders.' New Zealand and Pacific Studies 'Eclectic and thought-provoking ... While this collection focuses on the concerns of literature and visual arts specialists, it raises issues also of interest to historians and gives a broad perspective on late 20th-century Western views of the Pacific.' Journal of Pacific History