Bad colonists : the South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke
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Bad colonists : the South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke
Duke University Press, 1999
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South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke
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Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke, almost all of which were written to their respective mothers, with commentary
Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-159) and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : letter-writing and colonial selfhood
- An awfully bad hand at letter writing : Vernon Lee Walker and colonial history
- The letters of Vernon Lee Walker, 1878-1887
- Self-fashioning and savagery : Louis Becke's Pacific letters
- The letters of Louis Becke, 1880-1882
- The apotheosis of savagery : Louis Becke's Pacific tales
- Epilogue : figures in history