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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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