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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fuller, Jennifer

Titel

Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys' Adventure Novel by Michelle Elleray (review)

Ist Teil von

• Victorian Periodicals Review, 2021-04, Vol.54 (1), p.160-162

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Elleray's goal is to "show that missionary culture's investment in the socially marginal (the young, the working class sailor, the Pacific Islander convert) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class" (2). [...]savagery is predicated not on race but on the proper manifestation of faith; heathenism can be found not only among foreign islanders but also in white sailors and the child reader at home. [...]Stevenson's work asks us to consider the cost of the Western presence in the Pacific, "presenting us with agency divorced from accountability" (196).