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The Colonizer Abroad: Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
The Colonizer Abroad Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Author:Christopher McBride Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--The Colonizer Abroad claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. This book applies postcolonial th... more »eory to the travel writing of some of America's best-known authors, revealing the ways in which America's travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society.« less