Jennifer Fuller is Assistant Lecturer in English at Idaho State University. She became an English major by skipping out of chemistry labs to read Robert Louis Stevenson. Raised in Birmingham, AL, Dr. Fuller completed her undergraduate work at Furman University in South Carolina before moving west to do her graduate work at the University of Tulsa. She recently worked as an Assistant Professor of English at Warner University in Lake Wales, Florida.

• Introduction; 1. Moving missions and novel settlements: Early British Pacific propaganda (1796-1866); 2. Adventures in the Pacific: The influence of trade on the South Seas novel; 3. Islands of discovery: Scientific curiosity in the works of Darwin, Huxley, and Wells; 4. The price of paradise: Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and British expansion in the Pacific; 5. The Islanders Speak: Pacific reflections in the British press.

Dark Paradise is a very well-written book that stands to amplify our understanding of the Pacific in significant ways.

Jennifer Fuller is Assistant Lecturer in English at Idaho State University. She became an English major by skipping out of chemistry labs to read Robert Louis Stevenson. Raised in Birmingham, AL, Dr. Fuller completed her undergraduate work at Furman University in South Carolina before moving west to do her graduate work at the University of Tulsa. She recently worked as an Assistant Professor of English at Warner University in Lake Wales, Florida.

• Introduction; 1. Moving missions and novel settlements: Early British Pacific propaganda (1796-1866); 2. Adventures in the Pacific: The influence of trade on the South Seas novel; 3. Islands of discovery: Scientific curiosity in the works of Darwin, Huxley, and Wells; 4. The price of paradise: Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and British expansion in the Pacific; 5. The Islanders Speak: Pacific reflections in the British press.

Dark Paradise is a very well-written book that stands to amplify our understanding of the Pacific in significant ways.

Jennifer Fuller is Assistant Lecturer in English at Idaho State University. She became an English major by skipping out of chemistry labs to read Robert Louis Stevenson. Raised in Birmingham, AL, Dr. Fuller completed her undergraduate work at Furman University in South Carolina before moving west to do her graduate work at the University of Tulsa. She recently worked as an Assistant Professor of English at Warner University in Lake Wales, Florida.

• Introduction; 1. Moving missions and novel settlements: Early British Pacific propaganda (1796-1866); 2. Adventures in the Pacific: The influence of trade on the South Seas novel; 3. Islands of discovery: Scientific curiosity in the works of Darwin, Huxley, and Wells; 4. The price of paradise: Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and British expansion in the Pacific; 5. The Islanders Speak: Pacific reflections in the British press.

Dark Paradise is a very well-written book that stands to amplify our understanding of the Pacific in significant ways.