Pacific Tale

Mandy Treagus is Adjunct Associate Professor in Humanities at the University of Adelaide. She has published on contemporary Pacific literature and art, Australian literature, and literature and culture of the British colonial era. Her titles include Empire Girls: The Colonial Heroine Comes of Age, Changing the Victorian Subject and Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter. She is a settler of Welsh, Scottish and Cornish descent, and lives on the unceded lands of the Peramangk and Kaurna peoples in South Australia.

• 1. The Pacific Tale.- 2. Emptying the Imperial Romance: Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide.- 3. Mapping, Mastery and Islander Women: The Traders’ Voice in Louis Becke’s By Reef and Palm.- 4. Jack London in the Solomons: Race, Labour and Melanesianism in South Sea Tales.- 5.  Late-Colonial Breakdown in the Tropics: W. Somerset Maugham’s The Trembling of a Leaf.- 6. The Pacific as Polynesian Belle: James A. Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific and Military Occupation.- 7.  Beyond the Pacific Tale.