{"product_id":"cruising-with-robert-louis-stevenson-travel-narrative-and-the-colonial-body-hardback-9780821417560","title":"Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson; Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body (Hardback) 9780821417560","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCruising with Robert Louis Stevenson\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTravel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eOliver S. Buckton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821417560, Ohio University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 June 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.626 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Buckton's scholarly synthesis pushes us to reconsider the relationship between travel writing and fiction in Stevenson's body of work and to examine the intersections between issues such as colonialism and same-sex desire across genres.\" (Victorian Studies) \"Buckton convincingly argues for continued consideration of Stevenson as a writer who productively engaged with the social concerns of the contemporaneous moment.\" (Rocky Mountain Review) \"Buckton's book offers a series of original, and at times, provocative reappraisals of some of Stevenson's most undervalued writings.\" (English Literature in Transition) \"Overall this sophisticated approach to Stevenson's writings offers an admirable heuristic for bringing into conjunction his literal and literary journeys.\" (Romanticism \u0026amp; Victorianism on the Net) \"Oliver Buckton's informed and sophisticated book skillfully combines...theoretical preoccupations with a meticulous exploration of Stevenson's writing, probing the influence of travel on his fictional and nonfictional prose works.... A valuable addition to the study of nineteenth-century travel writing and fiction.\" (Journal of British Studies) \"Highly recommended.\" \"The first book centered on the influence of travel on Stevenson's writing from the beginning to the end of his career.... By largely exempting the most often examined of Stevenson's texts, it focuses necessary attention on the others, particularly the juvenile fiction and the travel writing.... Thoroughly researched both historically and critically.\" \u003cp\u003e\"Oliver Buckton's lucid study moves with grace and discernment\u003cbr\u003e from close analyses of literary texts to informed and\u003cbr\u003e consistently informative investigations of culture and colonial\u003cbr\u003e politics in the Victorian fin de siècle. Buckton shows\u003cbr\u003e how a commitment to 'cruising'—as a mode of travel, a cast\u003cbr\u003e of mind, and a method of composition—enabled Stevenson\u003cbr\u003e to produce a body of literature that is at once historically\u003cbr\u003e aware and aesthetically sophisticated. Cruising with Robert Louis\u003cbr\u003e Stevenson will be indispensable not just to scholars of Stevenson\u003cbr\u003e but to all readers interested in the literature of modern\u003cbr\u003e empire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e (University of Virginia) \u003cp\u003e\"Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson makes a vital contribution\u003cbr\u003e to the resurgent critical interest in Stevenson's increasingly\u003cbr\u003e fraught career. By tracing Stevenson's enduring interest in\u003cbr\u003e 'cruising'—the mobility that characterizes his travel narratives,\u003cbr\u003e historical romances, and writings on Samoa—Buckton\u003cbr\u003e unravels this great writer's sharpened awareness of imperial\u003cbr\u003e oppression. Among its many achievements, this fine book\u003cbr\u003e makes it strikingly clear why the wandering protagonist of\u003cbr\u003e the historical romance David Balfour has profound political\u003cbr\u003e links with Stevenson's own troubled excursions in the South\u003cbr\u003e Pacific.\"\u003c\/p\u003e (UCLA)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body\u003c\/i\u003e 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 in the Victorian fin de siècle.\u003cbr\u003e Oliver S. Buckton develops “cruising” as a critical term, linking Stevenson’s leisurely mode of travel with the striking narrative motifs of disruption and fragmentation that characterize his writings. Buckton traces the development of Stevenson’s career from his early travel books to show how Stevenson’s major works of fiction, such as \u003ci\u003eTreasure Island, Kidnapped,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ebb-Tide,\u003c\/i\u003e draw on innovative techniques and materials Stevenson acquired in the course of his global travels.\u003cbr\u003e Exploring Stevenson’s pivotal role in the revival of “romance” in the late nineteenth century, \u003ci\u003eCruising with Robert Louis Stevenson \u003c\/i\u003ehighlights Stevenson’s treatment of the human body as part of his resistance to realism, arguing that the energies and desires released by travel are often routed through disturbingly resistant or darkly comic corporeal figures. Buckton gives extensive attention to Stevenson’s writing about the South Seas, arguing that his groundbreaking critiques of European colonialism are formed in awareness of the fragility and desirability of Polynesian bodies and island landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCruising with Robert Louis Stevenson\u003c\/i\u003e will be indispensable to all admirers of Stevenson as well as of great interest to readers of travel writing, Victorian ethnography, gender studies, and literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739504177432,"sku":"9780821417560","price":37.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cruising-with-robert-louis-stevenson-travel-narrative-and-the-colonial-body-hardback-9780821417560","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}