Robert Louis Stevenson: class and 'race' in The Amateur Emigrant

Phillips, L. (2005) Robert Louis Stevenson: class and 'race' in The Amateur Emigrant. Race & Class. 46(3), pp. 39-54. 1741-3125.

Item Type:	Article
Abstract:	In 1879, an impoverished Stevenson travelled from Scotland to California in conditions almost identical to those of working-class and poverty-stricken emigrants. His account, The Amateur Emigrant, shocked the class sensitivities of his family and friends, and was not published in full in his lifetime. The experience had a profound effect on Stevenson’s personal sensibilities; his consciousness of his ambivalent position as a middle-class writer in the midst of his working-class contemporaries renders The Amateur Emigrant a remarkable revelation of the intermingled complexities of class, race and gender in late Victorian England.
Additional Information:	UoA 57, RAE 2008
Uncontrolled Keywords:	colonialism, gender, middle class, steerage, travel writing, Victorian
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR3991 19th century, 1770/1800 - 1890/1900
Creators:	Phillips, Lawrence
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Date:	1 January 2005
Date Type:	Publication
Page Range:	pp. 39-54
Journal or Publication Title:	Race & Class
Volume:	46
Number:	3
Language:	English
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396805050017
ISSN:	1741-3125
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/195

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