LITERARY CRITICISM AND CULTURAL THEORY Edited by William E.Cain Professor of English Wellesley College A ROUTLEDGE SERIES LITERARY CRITICISM AND CULTURAL THEORY WILLIAM E.CAIN, General Editor DEATH, MEN, AND MODERNISM Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf Ariela Freedman THE SELF IN THE CELL Narrating the Victorian Prisoner Sean Grass REGENERATING THE NOVEL Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, Sinclair, and Lawrence James J.Miracky SATIRE AND THE POSTCOLONIAL NOVEL V.S.Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie John Clement Ball THROUGH THE NEGATIVE The Photographic Image and the Written Word in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Megan Williams LOVE AMERICAN STYLE Divorce and the American Novel, 1881–1976 Kimberly Freeman FEMINIST UTOPIAN NOVELS OF THE 1970s Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant Tatiana Teslenko DEAD LETTERS TO THE NEW WORLD Melville, Emerson, and American Transcendentalism Michael McLoughlin THE OTHER ORPHEUS A Poetics of Modern Homosexuality Merrill Cole THE OTHER EMPIRE British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire Filiz Turhan THE “DANGEROUS” POTENTIAL OF READING Readers and the Negotiation of Power in Nineteenth-Century Narratives Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau INTIMATE AND AUTHENTIC ECONOMIES The American Self-Made Man from Douglass to Chaplin Thomas Nissley REVISED LIVES Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship William Pannapacker LABOR PAINS Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott on Work and the Woman Question Carolyn Maibor NARRATIVE IN THE PROFESSIONAL AGE Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Jennifer Cognard-Black THE REAL NEGRO The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature Shelly Eversley FICTIONAL FEMINISM How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women’s Equality Kim A.Loudermilk THE COLONIZER ABROAD American Writers on Foreign Soil, 1846–1912 Christopher Mark McBride Routledge New York & London Published in 2004 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 http://www.routledge.com/ Published in Great Britain by Routledge 27 Church Road Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA http://www.routledge.co.uk/ Copyright © 2004 by Taylor & Francis Books, Inc. 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Travelers’ writing, American—History and criticism. 2. American literature—19th century— History and criticism. 3. American literature—20th century—History and criticism. 4. Americans—Foreign countries—history—20th century 5. Americans—Foreign countries— History—19th century. 6. United States—Foreign relations—19th century. 7. United States— Foreign relations—20th century. 8. Imperialism in literature. 9. Travelers in literature. 10. colonies in literature. 11. Travel in literature. I. title. II. Series. PS366.T73 M38 2004 810.9′32–dc22 2003024439 This book is dedicated to my wife Kerianne and my sons Sawyer and Griffin. Without your loving presence, my life would lack the richness you so wonderfully give. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 ChapterOne Melville’s Typee and the Development of the American 8 Colonial Imagination Chapter Two The Colonizing Voice in Cuba: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.’s To 27 Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage ChapterThree “The Kings of the Sandwich Islands”: Mark Twain’s Letters 50 from Hawaii and Postbellum American Imperialism Chapter Four Charles Warren Stoddard and the American “Homocolonial” 75 Literary Excursion Chapter Five “And Who Are These White Men?”: Jack London’s The 100 House of Pride and American Colonization of the Hawaiian Islands Conclusion 122 Bibliography 130 Index 140 Acknowledgments A project of this size is not possible without the help of many. For their assistance with all phases of this work, I am grateful for the help and inspiration of my dissertation committee members, Wendy Martin, Alfred Bendixen, Robert Hudspeth, and Emory Elliott. I am particularly indebted to Alfred Bendixen who has guided me as both a mentor and a colleague, providing insight and motivation when I needed them. For the privilege of accessing their Jack London materials, I would like to thank the Henry E.Huntington Library in San Marino, California. For their generous help in obtaining hard to find printed items, I am grateful to the reference librarians at the Honnold Library, Claremont, California State University, Los Angeles, Fullerton College, and Solano College. I would also like to express my gratitude to the participants in the Fourth Biennial Jack London Society Symposium, held at the Huntington Library in October 1998, for their helpful questions, comments, and suggestions on an earlier version of my Jack London chapter.