Phillips, L. (2005) Robert Louis Stevenson: class and 'race' in The Amateur Emigrant. Race & Class. 46(3), pp. 39-54. 1741-3125.
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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
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Creators:
Phillips, L.
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
Date:
1 January 2005
Date Type:
Publication
Page Range:
pp. 39-54
Journal or Publication Title:
Race & Class
Volume:
46
Number:
3
Language:
English
ISSN:
1741-3125
Status:
Published / Disseminated
Refereed:
Yes
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