Preserving the self in the south seas, 1680-1840
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Preserving the self in the south seas, 1680-1840
University of Chicago Press, 2001
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-335) and index
収録内容
- Introduction
- Political theories of the self
- The romance of navigation
- Science and collecting
- Scurvy
- The polynesian person and the spread of leprosy
- Void contracts and subtle islands
- Patriots in paradise
- Starlings and parrots, Keate and sympathy
- The Settlement of New Zealand
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In the literature of South Seas exploration the violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are vivid. This volume charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed. Lamb contends that European exploration ofthe South Seas was less confident and mindful than we have assumed. It was, instead, conducted in moods of distraction and infatuation that were hard to make sense of and difficult to narrate, and it prompted reactions among indigenous peoples that were equally passionate and irregular. "Preserving the Self in the South Seas" also examines these common crises of exploration in the context of a metropolitan audience that eagerly consumed narratives of the Pacific while doubting their truth. Lamb considers why these halting and incredible journals were so popular with the reading public, and suggests that they dramatized anxieties and bafflements rankling at the heart of commercial society.
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