Oceania and the Victorian imagination: where all things are possible

Part I: Travel, exhibitions and photography

Pacific phantasmagorias: Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific photography / Carla Manfredi

"Greater Britain": late imperial travel writing and the settler colonies / Anna Johnston

The South Seas Exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893 / Mandy Treagus

Displaying an oceanic nation and society: the Kingdom of Hawai'i at nineteenth-century international exhibitions / Peter H. Hoffenberg

Part II: Fiction and the Pacific

"The White Lady and the Brown Woman": colonial masculinity and domesticity in Louis Beck's 'By Reef and Palm' (1894) / Sumangala Bhattacharya

Who's who in "The Isle of Voices"? How Victorian Robert Louis Stevenson viewed Pacific Islanders' perceptions of Victorians and of themselves / Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega

At home in the empire: domesticity and masculine identity in 'Almayer's Folly' and "The Beach of Falesa?" / Ingrid Ranum

Isolation and variation on Doctor Moreau's Oceanic Island / Genie Babb

Part III: Childhood and children

Cooks and queens and dreams: the South Sea Islands as fairy islands of fancy / Michelle Patricia Beissel Heath

The South Seasin mid-Victorian children's imagination / Richard D. Fulton

Watermarks on 'The Coral Island': the Pacific Island missionary as children's hero / Michelle Elleray

"Turned topsy-turvy": William Howitt, antipodean colonial space and Victorian children's literature / Judith Johnston.