The Amateur Emigrant, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0748669744
ISBN-13
9780748669745
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 31st, 2018
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
464 grams
Dimensions
14.90 x 22.30 x 2.30 cms
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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.
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 Stevenson''s middle-class family and friends found the work so transgressive that it was withdrawn from publication at proof stage.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.
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