The Colonizer Abroad: Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London

Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--<em>The Colonizer Abroad</em> claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of Americas best-known authors, revealing the ways in which Americas travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society.