Scottish Literature of the South Seas

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).

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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 Sāmoan 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



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