Ohio University Press Buckton, O: Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson

"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. ...