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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Pearson, Bill, 1922-     Subjects     English literature -- History and criticism.     American literature -- History and criticism.     French literature -- History and criticism.     Islands of the Pacific -- In literature.     Islands of the Pacific -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pearson, Bill, 1922-       by title:      Rifled sanctuaries [...         MARC Display

Rifled sanctuaries [electronic resource] : some views of the Pacific Islands in Western literature to 1900 / Bill Pearson. by Pearson, Bill, 1922- Chicago : Auckland University Press, 2013. Subjects English literature -- History and criticism.   American literature -- History and criticism.   French literature -- History and criticism.   Islands of the Pacific -- In literature.   Islands of the Pacific -- Description and travel. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=B8E754A6-9D4C-4D6F-B879-C5F1852906EE This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/rifled-sanctuaries-b8e754?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0427-1/{B8E754A6-9D4C-4D6F-B879-C5F1852906EE}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781775581437 (electronic bk.) 1775581438 (electronic bk.) 9781775586074 (electronic bk.) 1775586073 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (167 pages) Contents:  Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Fall from Grace; 2 Rescue and Captivity; 3 Views from the Beach; References; Index; Footnotes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Back Cover. Requests:  0 Summary:  The Pacific Islands began to appear in Western literature soon after European navigators made landfall there. From the first, there was seldom a statement of plain facts. Explorers brought their own viewpoints while editors, poets and novelists went on to interpret and moralise the first accounts. Portraying Pacific peoples as sensual, indolent, childlike and - frequently - wicked, such stories implied the duty of Europeans to rule and of the natives to be grateful. Modified though it sometimes was by the more accepting attitudes of beachcombers, by the exploitative activities of traders, and.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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