Driven to the South Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the ‘stirabout of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilisations, virtues and crimes’. Setting his imaginative writings within the social and political contexts of his letters and essays from the South Seas, reveals the deepening and broadening of Stevenson’s genius and his growing awareness of and anger at white exploitation. It was a society in which his love of adventure, hi...
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Formato EPUB ● Páginas 776 ● ISBN 9781847675224 ● Editor Jenni Calder ● Editorial Canongate Books ● Publicado 2009 ● Descargable 6 veces ● Divisa EUR ● ID 2421947 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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