SOURCE: “Opening Accounts in the South Seas: Poe's Pym and American Pacific Orientalism,” in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1996, pp. 291-326.
In the following essay, Lyons examines the influence of several contemporary South Seas narratives on Pym, linking the whole genre with American colonial policy and expansionism.
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