Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: travel, narrative, and the colonial body

Reanimating Stevenson's corpus

The beast in the mountains: misusing the ass in Travels with a donkey

"Faithful to his map": profit, desire, and the ends of travel in Treasure Island

"Mr. Betwixt-and-between": history, travel, and narrative

Indeterminacy in Kidnapped

"A quarry of materials": the fictional history of Stevenson's South Seas cruises

"Buridan's donkey": the (para)texts of Samoan colonial history in David Balfour and A footnote to history

"The white man's quarrel": sexuality, travel, and colonialism in Stevenson's South Sea tales

"There's an end to it": disease and partnership in The ebb-tide.