Machine generated contents note: 1. Shakespeare's writing practice: value, exchange, and the work of form; 2. The stylistic self in Richard II; 3. Portia's laboratory: The Merchant of Venice and the new science; 4. The medium and the message: As You Like It; 5. Hamlet's parenthe…
From an interdisciplinary standpoint, this book shows how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the ruin of indigenous cultures or the mimicry of European models by an abject population.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- PROLEGOMENA -- 1. ENIGMA -- 2. EFFLUVIA -- 3. NOSTALGIA -- 4. AUSTRALIA -- 5. GENERA MIXTA -- CODA -- Bibliography -- Index
