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Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840
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Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840 Paperback - 2001

by Lamb, Jonathan

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  • Title Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840
  • Author Lamb, Jonathan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint. 2nd ed.
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 48923997-75
  • ISBN 9780226468495 / 0226468496
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.03 x 0.77 in (22.91 x 15.32 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Self in literature, Oceania - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00011809
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.935

From the rear cover

The violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are nowhere more vivid than in the literature of South Seas exploration. Preserving the Self in the South Seas 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 of the 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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Citations

  • Choice, 12/01/2001, Page 685

About the author

Jonathan Lamb is a professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author, most recently, of The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century and coeditor of Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology, 1680-1900 and Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840.

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