Scottish Literature of the South Seas

Critical Studies of Scotland and the Pacific
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-68216-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature

This volume, edited by Richard J. Hill and Allison E. Francis, explores literary connections between Scotland and the Pacific. The contributors, including some of the world’s foremost scholars in Scottish and Pacific studies, examine how Scottish writing about the Pacific, and Pacific engagement with Scottish culture, generates a cultural examination of Scotland’s place in the British colonizing hierarchy.


While Robert Louis Stevenson was the principal Scottish author who shaped these early discussions, other prominent Scottish authors are also analyzed. Several chapters examine Scottish engagement with the South Seas, before and after Stevenson’s involvement with Pacific cultural and political affairs. The book lends weight and understanding as to why Pacific Islanders—both immigrant and indigenous—often claim affiliations with Scotland, and in the case of Hawaii and Samoa, to Stevenson in particular.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hill, Richard J.

Francis, Allison E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Richard J. Hill

1 Dia-Colonialism in Scotland and Aotearoa

Sarah Paterson-Hamlin

2 Literary Perils of Piracy: the Strange Case of Alexander Selkirk

Allison E. Francis

3 Omai the Traveller Meets George the Tourist: a Pacific Voyager at the King’s Visit to Edinburgh, 1822

Caroline McCracken-Flesher

4 Sovereignty and the Shadows of Indigeneity: Stevenson’s Remediations of Scott in The Master of Ballantrae

Yoon Sun Lee

5 “Where will all come home?”: Global Stevenson

Penny Fielding

6 Empire on a Small Scale: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Footnote as a Samoan Microhistory

Lucio De Capitani

7 Turning The Ebb-Tide: Ghosts in the Machine

Roslyn Jolly

8 Inter-Racial Intimacies: Stevenson’s Late Pacific Tales

Mandy Treagus

9 “‘The world was Like all New Painted’: Correspondences in Stevenson’s Rhetoric of Landscape in Kidnapped and The Beach of Falesá”

Nathalie Jaëck

10 Blackbirding, Cannibalism, and the Demands of Appetite in John Cameron’s Odyssey

Audrey Murfin

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard J. Hill received his Ph.D. in English from Edinburgh University and is Professor of English at Chaminade University of Honolulu. He is the author of Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels (Routledge, 2010), and Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text (Routledge, 2017).

Allison E. Francis received her PhD. in English from Washington University in St. Louis, and is a Professor of English, Theater and Performing Arts at Chaminade University of Honolulu. She co-edited South Seas Encounters: Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America (Routledge, 2018), and co-authored a poetry collection, Mulatta—Not So Tragic (Dodsworth Books, 2022).