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The Amateur Emigrant

The Amateur Emigrant

Reid, Julia

Hardcover

Series: New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis

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ISBN10: 0748669744
ISBN13: 9780748669745
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Mar 23 2018
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Definitive modern edition of Stevenson's intriguing account of his emigration from Scotland to California

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 Stevenson's middle-class family and friends found the work so transgressive that it was withdrawn from publication at proof stage.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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