The Colonizer Abroad: Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London

by Christo 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 theory to the travel writing of some of America's best-known authors, revealing the ways in which America's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415970628
• ISBN13: 9780415970624
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"