Robert Louis Stevenson: class and ‘race’ in The Amateur Emigrant  

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Phillips, Lawrence

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Race & Class vol. 46 no. 3 (Jan. 2005), page 39-54.
Topik: colonialism; gender; middle class; steerage; travel writing; Victorian
Fulltext: 39.pdf (140.92KB)

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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.

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