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- Title
Emigration with a Vengeance: Undercover Investigative Journalism and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Amateur Emigrant.
- Authors
Donovan, Stephen; Rubery, Matthew
- Abstract
This essay examines the vogue for undercover exposés of transatlantic emigration during the late nineteenth century. Styling themselves "amateur emigrants," investigators disguised their identities and adopted the methods of full participant observation in order to provide newspaper readers with a vicarious experience of the degradations of shipboard steerage travel. Recovery of this journalistic subgenre illuminates the true nature of its most famous exemplar, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Amateur Emigrant (1895), a literary classic that originated as an undercover investigation for the press.
- Subjects
STEVENSON, Robert Louis, 1850-1894; INVESTIGATIVE reporting; EMIGRATION &; immigration; IMMIGRANTS; REVENGE; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2021, Vol 54, Issue 4, p527
- ISSN
0709-4698
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vpr.2021.0043