The Amateur Emigrant (The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson)

Reid, Julia (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2018/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 268 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780748669745
• DDC分類 828.809

Full Description

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 Stevenson's middle-class family and friends found the work so transgressive that it was withdrawn from publication at proof stage.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

Contents

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . ix

Preface by the General Editors. . . . . . xiii

List of Abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . xvii

Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson . . . xix

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii

Composition. . . . . . . . . . . xxviii

Suppression. . . . . . . . . . . xxxvii

Partial Publication and Early Reception. . . xli

Artistic Influences and Literary Contexts. . xlv

Historical Contexts . . . . . . . . . xlix

Afterlife and Influence. . . . . . . . li

THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT

Dedication. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Part I. The Emigrant Ship . . . . . . . . 5

The Second Cabin. . . . . . . . . 7

Early Impressions. . . . . . . . . 13

Steerage Scenes . . . . . . . . . . 20

Steerage Types. . . . . . . . . . 28

The Sick Man. . . . . . . . . . . 41

The Stowaways . . . . . . . . . . 49

Personal Experience and Review. . . . 60

Part II. America: The Emigrant Train . . . . 71

New York . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Notes by the Way to Council Bluffs . . . 84

The Emigrant Train . . . . . . . . 95

The Plains of Nebraska . . . . . . . 102

The Desert of Wyoming . . . . . . . 105

Fellow Passengers . . . . . . . . . 109

Despised Races . . . . . . . . . . 113

To the Golden Gates . . . . . . . . 117

Appendix

Illustrations. . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Essay on the Text. . . . . . . . . . . 131

Composition . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . 132

1880 Galley Proofs . . . . . . . . . 134

Suppression and Partial Publication . . . . 136

Longman's Magazine . . . . . . . . 137

Across the Plains . . . . . . . . . . 140

Edinburgh Edition . . . . . . . . . 143

The Present Text. . . . . . . . . . 152

Emendation List. . . . . . . . . . . 161

End-of-Line Hyphens. . . . . . . . . 173

Explanatory Notes. . . . . . . . . . 174