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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 / Oliver S. Buckton.

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Buckton, Oliver S.

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Athens : Ohio University Press, 2007.

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x, 344 p.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-337) and index.

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.

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