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Abstract:Textual history of Wyss's novel in EnglishDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "A Textual History of J.R. Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson" by Philip Joseph Holden, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may als...

Abstract:Textual history of Wyss's novel in EnglishDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "A Textual History of J.R. Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson" by Philip Joseph Holden, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may als...

Tales of hunting and outdoorsmanship in the beautiful South Island high country

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A stunning collection of some of Philip Holden's best-loved stories, accompanied by spectacular photographs highlighting the country and the wildlife he loved. Philip Holden was one of NZ's best-loved authors. His first book, PACK AND RIFLE, was published in 1971 and detailed his adventures as a deer culler for the New Zealand Forest Service. Encouraged by his initial success he produced another two popular works, HUNTER BY PROFESSION (1973) a...

This work argues that Maugham's work attempts to negotiate between two alternative masculine identities: those of private homosexual and public writer. The basis of the study is the notion that Maugham's texts, despite their exotic locations, reflect a struggle over masculine British identity.

An exploration of the intersection of colonialism and homosexuality in fiction and travel writing from Robinson Crusoe to the present, this volume brings together two dynamic fields of academic inquiry: colonial discourse analysis, which considers literary texts as expressions of colonial power, and queer theory, which interrogates the representation, enforcement, and subversions of sexualities in literature and culture. These writers reexamin...

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Reveals connections between the writing of individual lives and of the narratives of nations emerging from colonialism. This book focusses on the autobiographies of nationalist leaders in the process of decolonization, attending to them not simply as partial historical documents, but as texts involved in remaking the world views of their readers.