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Problematic Shores: The Literature of Islands

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction

    • Diana Loxley
    Pages 1-14
  3. Islands of Civility, Seas of Savagery

    • Diana Loxley
    Pages 73-128
  4. Afterword

    • Diana Loxley
    Pages 170-171
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 172-193

About this book

The desert island has been one of the powerful and insistent motifs in British literature and this book deals with the reproduction of the desert island myth during the era of high imperialism in 19th century Britain. The book examines a series of works from Defoe to Stevenson.

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