Islands in History and Representation (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, Band 6) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415286662 ISBN 13: 9780415286664

Verlag: Routledge, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

With contributions from an international range of leading authorities on literature, history, art and geography, this book discusses the cultural significance of islands.

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Rod Edmond was born and grew up in New Zealand. Following graduate work at Oxford University he is currently a Reader in Nineteenth Century and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent. He has published on Victorian and Modernist literature, contemporary Pacific and New Zealand writing and extensively in the field of Eighteenth - Twentieth Century Colonial Discourse Studies. He is the author of Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse From Cook to Gauguin (1997) and is currently completing a book on colonialism and disease, with particular reference to leprosy.
Vanessa Smith is an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in the School of English, Art History, Film and Media at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (1998) and co-editor, with Jonathan Lamb and Nicholas Thomas, of Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology 1680-1900 (2000).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415286662
• ISBN 13: 9780415286664
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Edmond Rod, Smith Vanessa
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Deutschland