Title Victorian coral islands of empire, mission, and the boys' adventure novel / Michelle Elleray

Published New York : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present Ser Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present. Contents Introduction -- 1. The Juvenile Missionary Magazine: Agency and Discipline -- 2. Masterman Ready's Grave: Deliverance and the Sailor -- 3. The Coral Island: Savagery, Manliness and Faith -- 4. Slavery in the Pacific: "Do Right," or, "That's No Business of Mine" -- 5. The Ebb-Tide: Seeking Pearls Summary "Attending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) 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. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children's textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British presence in imperial spaces as a moral imperative, our understanding of the "adventurer" is transformed from the plucky explorer to the cynical mercenary through Robert Louis Stevenson, who provides a late-nineteenth-century critique of the imperial and missionary assumptions that subtended the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel of his youth"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Children's stories, English -- History and criticism Adventure stories, English -- History and criticism Children in literature. Missionaries in literature. Imperialism in literature. National characteristics, English, in literature. English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Adventure stories, English Children in literature Children's stories, English English fiction Imperialism in literature Literature Missionaries in literature National characteristics, English, in literature SUBJECT Islands of the Pacific -- In literature Subject Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2019055683 ISBN 9781000752991 1000752992 9780429280351 0429280351 9781000752816 100075281X 9781000752908 1000752909

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