Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial BodyOhio University Press, 2007 - 344 Seiten 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 develops "cruising" as a critical term, linking Stevenson's leisurely mode of travel with the striking narrative motifs of disruption and fragmentation that characterize his writings. Buckton follows Stevenson's career from his early travel books to show how Stevenson's major works of fiction, such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Ebb-Tide, derive from the innovative techniques and materials Stevenson acquired on his global travels. Exploring Stevenson's pivotal role in the revival of "romance" in the late nineteenth century, Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson highlights Stevenson's treatment of the human body as part of his resistance to realism, arguing that the energies and desires released by travel are often routed through resistant or comic corporeal figures. Buckton also focuses on Stevenson's writing about the South Seas, arguing that his groundbreaking critiques of European colonialism are formed in awareness of the fragility and desirability of Polynesian bodies and landscapes. Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson will be indispensable to all admirers of Stevenson as well as of great interest to readers of travel writing, Victorian ethnography, gender studies, and literary criticism. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One Reanimating Stevensons Corpus | 35 |
Chapter Two The Beast in the Mountains | 67 |
Chapter Three Faithful to his map | 97 |
Chapter Four Mr BetwixtandBetween | 126 |
Chapter Five A quarry of materials | 151 |
Chapter Six Buridans donkey | 181 |
Chapter Seven The White Mans Quarrel | 215 |
Chapter Eight Theres an end to it | 245 |
Notes | 271 |
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