The Amateur Emigrant, by Robert Louis Stevenson / / R. L. Stevenson, Julia Reid.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Stevenson, R. L.,; Reid, Julia,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson : NEECWRLS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface by the General Editors --; List of Abbreviations --; Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson --; Introduction --; HEADNOTE --; TO ROBERT ALAN STEVENSON --; PART I The Emigrant Ship --; The Second Cabin --; Early Impressions --; Steerage Scenes --; The Sick Man --; The Stowaways --; Personal Experience and Review --; PART II America: The Emigrant Train --; New York --; Notes by the Way to Council Bluffs --; The Emigrant Train --; The Plains of Nebraska --; The Desert of Wyoming --; Fellow Passengers --; Despised Races --; To the Golden Gates --; Appendix --; Essay on the Text --; Emendation List --; End-of-Line Hyphens --; Explanatory Notes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474471954; 9783110780437
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: R. L. Stevenson, Julia Reid.

Definitive modern edition of Stevenson’s intriguing account of his emigration from Scotland to CaliforniaThe 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 Stevenson’s middle-class family and friends found the work so transgressive that it was withdrawn from publication at proof stage.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.Key FeaturesUses the original manuscript as copy text, making available the work as Stevenson originally composed itScholarly introduction situates The Amateur Emigrant in relation to important biographical, critical, historical, social, and generic contexts, and offers a summary of key critical responsesProvides full textual apparatus including variant readings from hitherto unavailable 1880 proofs, textual essay, explanatory notes, and chronologyExciting new visual material including scans of the manuscript and proofs and a map of Stevenson’s journey