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Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson : travel, narrative, and the colonial body
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Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson : travel, narrative, and the colonial body

Author: Oliver S Buckton
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : English
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Named Person: Robert Louis Stevenson; Robert Louis Stevenson
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Oliver S Buckton
ISBN: 9780821417560 0821417568
OCLC Number: 122261920
Description: x, 344 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Reanimating Stevenson's corpus -- The beast in the mountains: misusing the ass in Travels with a donkey -- "Faithful to his map": profit, desire, and the ends of travel in Treasure Island -- "Mr. Betwixt-and-between": history, travel, and narrative indeterminacy in Kidnapped -- "A quarry of materials": the fictional history of Stevenson's South Seas cruises -- "Buridan's donkey": the (para)texts of Samoan colonial history in David Balfour and A footnote to history -- "The white man's quarrel": sexuality, travel, and colonialism in Stevenson's South Sea tales -- "There's an end to it": disease and partnership in The ebb-tide.
Responsibility: Oliver S. Buckton.
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