Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body
Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body 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.\ Oliver S. Buckton...
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Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body 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.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Travel and the (Re)animated BodyReanimating Stevenson's Corpus 35The Beast in the Mountains: Misusing the Ass in Travels with a Donkey 67Mapping the Historical Romance"Faithful to his map": Profit, Desire, and the Ends of Travel in Treasure Island 97"Mr. Betwixt-and-Between": History, Travel, and Narrative Indeterminacy in Kidnapped 126Travel and Ethnography in the South Seas"A quarry of materials": The Fictional History of Stevenson's South Seas Cruises 151"Buridan's donkey": The (Para)texts of Samoan Colonial History in David Balfour and A Footnote to History 181Rewriting the Imperial Romance"The White Man's Quarrel": Sexuality, Travel, and Colonialism in Stevenson's South Sea Tales 215"There's an end to it": Disease and Partnership in The Ebb-Tide 245Notes 271Bibliography 329Index 339
\ From the Publisher“Buckton’s scholarly synthesis pushes us to reconsider the relationship between travel writing and fiction in Stevenson’s body of work and to examine the intersections between issues such as colonialism and same-sex desire across genres.”\ Victorian Studies\ “Buckton convincingly argues for continued consideration of Stevenson as a writer who productively engaged with the social concerns of the contemporaneous moment.”\ Rocky Mountain Review\ “Buckton’s book offers a series of original, and at times, provocative reappraisals of some of Stevenson’s most undervalued writings.”\ English Literature in Transition\ \ \
