Islands in History and Representation

Rod Edmond was born and grew up in New Zealand. Following graduate work at Oxford University he is currently a Reader in Nineteenth Century and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent. He has published on Victorian and Modernist literature, contemporary Pacific and New Zealand writing and extensively in the field of Eighteenth - Twentieth Century Colonial Discourse Studies. He is the author of Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse From Cook to Gauguin (1997) and is currently completing a book on colonialism and disease, with particular reference to leprosy. Vanessa Smith is an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in the School of English, Art History, Film and Media at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (1998) and co-editor, with Jonathan Lamb and Nicholas Thomas, of Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology 1680-1900 (2000).

• Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith Introduction1. John R. Gillis Taking History Offshore: Islands and Continents in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World2. Gillian Beer Island Bounds3. Markman Ellis 'The Cane-Land Isles': Commerce and Empire in Late Eighteenth Century Georgic and Pastoral Poetry4. Deirdre Coleman Bulama and Sierra Leone: Utopian Islands and Visionary Interiors5. Vanessa Agnew Pacific Island Encounters and the German Invention of Race6. Harriet Guest Cook in Tonga: Terms of Trade7. Vanessa Smith Pitcairn's 'Guilty Stock': The Island as Breeding Ground8. Rod Edmond Islands of Disease: Colonialism and Leprosy9. Roger Moss Derek Walcott's Omeros: Representing St. Lucia, Re-presenting Homer10. Françoise Vergès The Island of Wandering Souls: Processes of Creolization, Politics of Emancipation and the Problematic of Absence on Reunion Island11. Klaus Dodds God Save the Falklands: Postcolonial Geographies of the Falklands/Malvinas12. Elizabeth McMahon The Gilded Cage: From Utopia to Monad in Australia's Island ImaginaryGreg Dening Afterword