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That wide field of ocean, called loosely the South Seas, extends from tropic to tropic, and from perhaps 120 degrees W. to 150 degrees E., a parallelogram of one hundred degrees by forty-seven, where degrees are the most spacious.1
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See Brenda Maddox, The Married Man: A Life of D.H. Lawrence (London: Minerva, 1995), p. 314.
See Rod Edmond, Representing the South Pacific: Colonial discourse from Cook to Gauguin (Cambridge: CUP, 1997), p. 161.
Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas; A Footnote to History (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1898), p. ix.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness [1902] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983), p. 41; Marlow’s opening monologue begins on p. 29.
H.J. Moors, With Stevenson in Samoa [1910] (Glasgow: Collins, no date), pp. 16–18.
Ibid., p. 21.
See Elaine Showalter, Sexual Anarchy (London: Virago, 1992), discussed in Edmond (1997), pp. 177–9. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985) was used by Wayne Koestenbaum to discuss the collaboration of Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne in his Double Talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 145–51.
The MS. of The Beach of Falesa is reproduced in Barry Menikoff, Robert Louis Stevenson and ‘The Beach of Falesa’: A Study in Victorian Publishing (Stanford University Press, 1984); for the marriage contract see p. 124 (and p. 101 for a photograph of the holograph).
R.L. Stevenson, South Sea Tales (ed. Roslyn Jolly) (Oxford: OUP, 1996), p. xxxv.
Thus Paul Ricoeur describes Marx, Freud and Nietzsche in his Freud and Philosophy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), p. 33.
Cf. my essay: ‘Stevenson’s “Auld Alliance”: France, Art Theory and the Breath of Money in The Wrecker’, Scottish Studies Review (Autumn 2002).
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Gray, W. (2004). In the South Seas. In: Robert Louis Stevenson. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510340_5
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