Herman Melville's whaling years / by Heflin, Wilson L. 1913-

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Herman Melville's whaling years / by Heflin, Wilson L. 1913-

The South Seas : a reception history from Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour / by Brawley, Sean, 1966-, Dixon, Chris, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings: Defoe, Dampier, and Discovery -- America's South Seas -- Herman Melville's Pacific Imaginings -- San Francisco, Art, and Robert Louis Stevenson -- Finding New Guinea -- The Colonial Endeavor and Australia's South Seas -- The Fair, the Stage, and the Song -- The Great War and the Lost Generation -- A South Seas Education: Platform Speakers, National Geographic, and Margaret Mead -- South Seas Tourism -- Hollywood Encounters the South Seas -- Cinematic Escapes: The South Seas Adventure Film -- HMAV Bounty and the Great Depression -- Pardon My Sarong: The Arrival of Dorothy Lamour.…”

American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / by Lyons, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : bound-together stories, varieties of ignorance, and the challenge of hospitality -- Where "cannibalism" has been, tourism will be : forms and functions of American Pacificism -- Opening accounts in the South Seas : Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, James Fenimore Cooper's The crater, and the antebellum development of American Pacificism -- Lines of fright : fear, perception, performance, and the "seen" of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee -- A poetics of relation : friendships between Oceanians and U.S. citizens in the literature of encounter -- From man-eaters to spam-eaters : cannibal tours, lotus-eaters, and the (anti)development of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century imaginings of Oceania -- Redeeming Hawai'i (and Oceania) in Cold War terms : A. …”
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Body trade : captivity, cannibalism and colonialism in the Pacific /

Table of Contents: “…Idriess', Coral Sea adventures / Robert Dixon -- Lines of fright : fear, perception and the 'seen' of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee / Paul Lyons -- Captivating fictions : Younâh! …”
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