South Seas Encounters

Richard Fulton earned his Ph.D. in English from Washington State University in 1975; his dissertation focused on periodical criticism of poetry in the 1870s. He is now a retired Academic Vice President, former President of both the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and VISAWUS, former editor of VPR, and continuing Victorian scholar working on Victorian childhood and the late Victorian military. He is author of some one hundred articles and reviews on Victorian Studies topics; in 2013 he collaborated with Peter Hoffenberg in editing Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where all things are possible. He is currently working on a book examining the culture of boyhood in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionList of IllustrationsPart One: Ethnographic EncountersChapter One: "The Natives Have a Decided Feeling for Form:" A. C. Haddon, the Torres Strait(s) Expedition, and the Question of Primitive Art Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, Los AngelesChapter Two: Macabre Encounters: Poisoned Arrows and Poisoned Ethnographies from Victorian Melanesia Jane Samson, University of AlbertaPart Two: Hawai`i and the British EmpireChapter Three: A Meeting of "Sister Sovereigns:" Hawaiian Royalty at Victoria’s Golden Jubilee Lindsay Puawehiwa Wilhelm, University of California, Los AngelesChapter Four: At Home with the Victorians? The Kingdom of Hawai`i at the London Fisheries Exhibition, 1883 Peter H. Hoffenberg, University of Hawai`i, ManoaChapter Five: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Grass Hut in Hawai`i Richard J. Hill, Chaminade UniversityChapter Six: Lad O’ Pairts in Paradise: A Scottish Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Hawai`i Bud (Duane) Clark, University of Hawai`i, Maui CollegePart Three: Hawai`i and the American RepublicChapter Seven: Ernest Hogan’s Colored All-Stars Minstrel Show: A case of racial discrimination in the Republic of Hawai`iAllison Paynter, Chaminade UniversityChapter Eight: Emancipation, Education and Hampton’s Southern Workman: Hawai’i, the Reconstruction South and Indian Territory Teresa Zackodnik, University of AlbertaPart Four: Science EncountersChapter Nine: The Malay Archipelago and the Poetics of Nature Alexis Harley, La Trobe UniversityChapter Ten: Constance Gordon-Cumming and the Boring Volcano: Victorian Conceptions of Kilauea Kent Linthicum, Oklahoma State UniversityChapter Eleven: Nineteenth-Century Cultural and Geohistorical Interpretations of Kilauea Philip K. Wilson, Retired History Department Chair, Current Bookstore ProprietorBrief Biographies of Contributors Index