Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson
Subtitle: travel, narrative, and the colonial body
By: Oliver S. Buckton.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780821417560
Subjects: Stevenson, Robert Louis, -- 1850-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation; Stevenson, Robert Louis, -- 1850-1894 -- Travel; Travel in literature; Colonies in literature; Homosexuality in literature; Men in literature; South Pacific Ocean -- In literature; Oceania -- In literature
Description: "This is the first book-length study about the influence of travel on Robert Louis Stevenson's writings, both fiction and nonfiction. Within the contexts of late-Victorian imperialism and ethnographic discourse, the book offers original close readings of individual works by Stevenson while bringing new theoretical insights to bear on the relationship between travel, authorship, and gender identity in the Victorian fin de siecle."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Reanimating Stevenson's corpus; title: The beast in the mountains: misusing the ass in Travels with a donkey; title: "Faithful to his map": profit, desire, and the ends of travel in Treasure Island; title: "Mr. Betwixt-and-between": history, travel, and narrative; title: Indeterminacy in Kidnapped; title: "A quarry of materials": the fictional history of Stevenson's South Seas cruises; title: "Buridan's donkey": the (para)texts of Samoan colonial history in David Balfour and A footnote to history; title: "The white man's quarrel": sexuality, travel, and colonialism in Stevenson's South Sea tales; title: "There's an end to it": disease and partnership in The ebb-tide.