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Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson and South Sea idols.
From: Victorian Newsletter
Date: 20040322
Author:Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning
In Little Dorrit, which depicts the Calvinist, Sabbatarian London of 1825, Dickens inadvertently slipped forward thirty years in his effort to present the South Sea islands in dystopic terms, to suggest the continuity of their brutal superstitions with those of a nominally enlightened city:
No pictures, no unfamiliar animals, no rare plants or flowers, no natural or artificial wonders of the ancient world--all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. (28)
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