Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body

by Oliver S. Buckton

Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body is the first booklengthstudy about the influence of travel on RobertLouis Stevenson's writings, both fiction and nonfiction.Within the contexts of late-Victorian imperialism andethnographic discourse, the book offers original closereadings of individual works by Stevenson while bringingnew theoretical insights to bear on the relationshipbetween travel, authorship, and gender...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821417568
• ISBN13: 9780821417560
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"