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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 : Biography : English
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Named Person: Robert Louis Stevenson
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Oliver S Buckton
ISBN: 0821417568 9780821417560
OCLC Number: 489510484
Description: x, 344 s. ; 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 --
history, travel, and narrative / "Mr.Betwixt-and-between" --
Indetermina=cy in Kidnapped --
the fictional historyof Stevenson's South Seas cruises / "A quarry of materials" --
the(para)texts of Samoan colonial history in David Balfour and Afootnote to history / "Buridan's donkey" --
sexuality,travel, and colonialism in Stevenson's South Sea tales / "The white man's quarrel" --
disease and partnership in The ebb-tide / "There'san end to it".
Responsibility: Oliver S. Buckton.

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