Amateur Emigrant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

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Definitive modern edition of Stevenson's intriguing account of his emigration from Scotland to California'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 Stevenson's middle-class family and friends found the work so transgressive that it was withdrawn from publication at proof stage.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 FeaturesUses 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

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-03-23
Mått:138 x 216 x 23 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Antal sidor:268
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748669745

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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).

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Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . ixPreface by the General Editors. . . . . . xiiiList of Abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . xviiChronology of Robert Louis Stevenson . . . xixIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviiComposition. . . . . . . . . . . xxviiiSuppression. . . . . . . . . . . xxxviiPartial Publication and Early Reception. . . xliArtistic Influences and Literary Contexts. . xlvHistorical Contexts . . . . . . . . . xlixAfterlife and Influence. . . . . . . . liTHE AMATEUR EMIGRANTDedication. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Part I. The Emigrant Ship . . . . . . . . 5The Second Cabin. . . . . . . . . 7Early Impressions. . . . . . . . . 13Steerage Scenes . . . . . . . . . . 20Steerage Types. . . . . . . . . . 28The Sick Man. . . . . . . . . . . 41The Stowaways . . . . . . . . . . 49Personal Experience and Review. . . . 60Part II. America: The Emigrant Train . . . . 71New York . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Notes by the Way to Council Bluffs . . . 84The Emigrant Train . . . . . . . . 95The Plains of Nebraska . . . . . . . 102The Desert of Wyoming . . . . . . . 105Fellow Passengers . . . . . . . . . 109Despised Races . . . . . . . . . . 113To the Golden Gates . . . . . . . . 117AppendixIllustrations. . . . . . . . . . . . 121Essay on the Text. . . . . . . . . . . 131Composition . . . . . . . . . . . 131Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . 1321880 Galley Proofs . . . . . . . . . 134Suppression and Partial Publication . . . . 136Longman’s Magazine . . . . . . . . 137Across the Plains . . . . . . . . . . 140Edinburgh Edition . . . . . . . . . 143The Present Text. . . . . . . . . . 152Emendation List. . . . . . . . . . . 161End-of-Line Hyphens. . . . . . . . . 173Explanatory Notes. . . . . . . . . . 174