Description
An original and richly illustrated study of the pictorial and written representations of Cook's voyages.
About the Author
Harriet Guest is Professor of English in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York.
Reviews
'Guest offers a series of fascinating and carefully nuanced readings of textual and visual representations of the South Pacific. ... Guest is as acute and informed an art historian as she is a literary critic, and the interdisciplinary approach is one of the book's great strengths. ... A truly interdisciplinary study, Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation should find its way onto the bookshelves and into the bibliographies of historians, art historians, and literary critics of the eighteenth century.' H-Albion
'Guest deftly brings together the often rapidly-changing political background of the late eighteenth century with developments in art, literature and philosophy, exploring their complex interplay. ... the Epilogue shows Guest at her finest.' Vanessa Collingridge, University of Glasgow
Book Information
ISBN 9780521881944
Author Harriet Guest
Format Hardback
Page Count 270
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 800g
Dimensions(mm) 253mm * 183mm * 18mm