Robert Louis Stevenson and the Romantic Tradition
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Romantic Tradition

Author: Edwin M. Eigner

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1400878853

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Stevenson's fiction is evaluated in the light of the significant Romantic traditions that have influenced the novel and the romance. Stevenson is also considered as a serious writer and compared with Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and other major writers of the period. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson
The Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022757752

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This definitive collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's poems, edited by William Peterfield Trent, showcases the breadth and depth of the author's poetic talent. From haunting ballads to whimsical verses, Stevenson's words will move and delight readers of all ages. A classic for any poetry lover's library. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle
Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle

Author: J. Reid

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-06-28

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0230554849

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In this fascinating book, Reid examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' life is at the heart of his work. She investigates a wide range of Stevenson's writing, including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Treasure Island as well as previously unpublished material from the Stevenson archive at Yale. Reid's interpretation offers a new way of understanding the relationship between his Scottish and South Seas work. Her analysis of Stevenson's engagement with anthropological and psychological debate also illuminates the dynamic intersections between literature and science at the fin de siècle.

Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Author: Dr Jason Marc Harris

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-04-28

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1409489906

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Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Author: Paul Maixner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 557

ISBN-13: 1136174370

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Author: David S. Robb

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0746309570

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The book consists of a series of discussions of the prose fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson, from his first book, New Arabian Nights, to the last short novel published in his lifetime, The Ebb-Tide. All his best-known novels are covered, as well as a selection of his lesser-known works. The focus is on the works themselves, rather than on Stevenson's admittedly fascinating life, which is touched on only so as to provide a context for his writing. It is arranged by the dates when the works were written, rather than when they were published, so as to provide an outline sketch of his career as a writer. The emphasis is on the diversity and energy of Stevenson's creativity, without seeking to overemphasize distinctions frequently applied to him in the past, such as that between his 'stories for boys' and books apparently written for adults.

The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century
The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century

Author: William J. Scheick

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0292771819

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The romance genre was a popular literary form among writers and readers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but since then it has often been dismissed as juvenile, unmodern, improper, or subversive. In this study, William J. Scheick seeks to recover the place of romance in fin-de-siècle England and America; to distinguish among its subgenres of eventuary, aesthetic, and ethical romance; and to reinstate ethical romance as a major mode of artistic expression. Scheick argues that the narrative maneuvers of ethical romance dissolve the boundary between fiction and fact. In contrast to eventuary romances, which offer easily consumed entertainment, or aesthetic romances, which urge upon readers a passive appreciation of a wondrous work of art, ethical romances potentially disorient and reorient their readers concerning some metaphysical insight hidden within the commonplace. They prompt readers to question what is real and what is true, and to ponder the wonder of life and the text of the self, there to detect what the reader might do in the art of his or her own life The authors whose works Scheick discusses are Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. Rider Haggard, Henry James, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, H. G. Wells, John Kendrick Bangs, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Richard Harding Davis, Stephen Crane, Mary Austin, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Cholmondeley, and Rudyard Kipling. This wide selection expands the canon to include writers and works that highly merit re-reading by a new generation.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1438113455

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Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.