The Amateur Emigrant, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-6974-5 (ISBN)
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The Amateur Emigrant, an autobiographical account of Stevenson’s voyage from Scotland to California in 1879, is a rich and provocative work of late-Victorian travel writing and cultural criticism. It describes vividly how Stevenson mixed with ‘steerage’ passengers aboard an Atlantic steamship and experienced the indignities of a transcontinental emigrant train. The Amateur Emigrant engages critically with Victorian ideas about class, race, and gender, and makes an important contribution to the literature of emigration. Stevenson’s middle-class family and friends found the work so transgressive that it was withdrawn from publication at proof stage. It was published in bowdlerized form in 1895 and since then has rarely been available in the form in which Stevenson composed it.
Key Features
Uses the original manuscript as copy text, making available the work as Stevenson originally composed itScholarly introduction situates The Amateur Emigrant in relation to important biographical, critical, historical, social, and generic contexts, and offers a summary of key critical responsesProvides full textual apparatus including variant readings from hitherto unavailable 1880 proofs, textual essay, explanatory notes, and chronologyExciting new visual material including scans of the manuscript and proofs and a map of Stevenson’s journey
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Dr Julia Reid is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . ix
Preface by the General Editors. . . . . . xiii
List of Abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . xvii
Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson . . . xix
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Composition. . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
Suppression. . . . . . . . . . . xxxvii
Partial Publication and Early Reception. . . xli
Artistic Influences and Literary Contexts. . xlv
Historical Contexts . . . . . . . . . xlix
Afterlife and Influence. . . . . . . . li
THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT
Dedication. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Part I. The Emigrant Ship . . . . . . . . 5
The Second Cabin. . . . . . . . . 7
Early Impressions. . . . . . . . . 13
Steerage Scenes . . . . . . . . . . 20
Steerage Types. . . . . . . . . . 28
The Sick Man. . . . . . . . . . . 41
The Stowaways . . . . . . . . . . 49
Personal Experience and Review. . . . 60
Part II. America: The Emigrant Train . . . . 71
New York . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Notes by the Way to Council Bluffs . . . 84
The Emigrant Train . . . . . . . . 95
The Plains of Nebraska . . . . . . . 102
The Desert of Wyoming . . . . . . . 105
Fellow Passengers . . . . . . . . . 109
Despised Races . . . . . . . . . . 113
To the Golden Gates . . . . . . . . 117
Appendix
Illustrations. . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Essay on the Text. . . . . . . . . . . 131
Composition . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . 132
1880 Galley Proofs . . . . . . . . . 134
Suppression and Partial Publication . . . . 136
Longman’s Magazine . . . . . . . . 137
Across the Plains . . . . . . . . . . 140
Edinburgh Edition . . . . . . . . . 143
The Present Text. . . . . . . . . . 152
Emendation List. . . . . . . . . . . 161
End-of-Line Hyphens. . . . . . . . . 173
Explanatory Notes. . . . . . . . . . 174
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.04.2017 |
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| Reihe/Serie | The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7486-6974-4 / 0748669744 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7486-6974-5 / 9780748669745 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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