Christopher McBride 
The Colonizer Abroad [PDF ebook] 
Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London

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 travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society.