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What is 'island'? And what is 'island writing'? The author explores these concepts through a close reading of A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas , an account of Thomas Forrest s travels in the Malay Archipelago. Having more to offer than merely ethnographical and scientific data, the report is a cultural product anchored in the realm of eighteenth-century English travel writing, with its distinctive literary conventions. Additionally, it is a text in which the instability of meaning parallels the definitional precariousness of island that historically defies monolithic interpretation of scholars in cartography, geography and literary studies. At a disciplinary crossroads, 'A Quest for Insularity' should be of interest to scholars and students of textual interpretation, eighteenth-century English print culture and literary tradition, European discovery literature, and Southeast Asian maritime history.

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• Full title: Quest for Insularity
• Author: Panida Boonthavevej
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• EAN: 9783639700435
• ISBN: 3639700430
• ID: 06889750
• Publisher: Scholars' Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. October 2013

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