The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Memories and portraits ; Random memories and other essays ; Records of a family of engineers
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 618
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 618
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 548
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 280
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Deborah Philips
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1849664919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study investigates the cultural production of the visual iconography of popular pleasure grounds from the eighteenth century pleasure garden to the contemporary theme park. Deborah Philips identifies the literary genres, including fairy tale, gothic horror, Egyptiana and the Western which are common to carnival sites and traces their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture.Though the bricolage of narratives and imagery found in the contemporary leisure zone has been read by many as emblematic of postmodern culture, the author argues that the clash of genres and stories is less a consequence of postmodern pastiche than it is the result of a history and popular tradition of conventionalized iconography.
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1843836726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Swallows and Amazons author's lost study of the author of Treasure Island, finally available with a substantial introduction detailing its rediscovery and Ransome's extraordinary early career.
Author: Roslyn Jolly
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1351902741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Louis Stevenson's departure from Europe in 1887 coincided with a vocational crisis prompted by his father's death. Impatient with his established identity as a writer, Stevenson was eager to explore different ways of writing, at the same time that living in the Pacific stimulated a range of latent intellectual and political interests. Roslyn Jolly examines the crucial period from 1887 to 1894, focusing on the self-transformation wrought in Stevenson's Pacific travel-writing and political texts. Jolly shows how Stevenson's desire to understand unfamiliar Polynesian and Micronesian cultures, and to record and intervene in the politics of Samoa, gave him opportunities to use his legal education, pursue his interest in historiography, and experiment with anthropology and journalism. Thus as his geographical and cultural horizons expanded, Stevenson's professional sphere enlarged as well, stretching the category of authorship in which his successes as a novelist had placed him. Rather than enhancing his stature as a popular writer, however, Stevenson's experiments with new styles and genres, and the Pacific subject matter of his later works, were resisted by his readers. Jolly's analysis of contemporary responses to Stevenson's writing, gleaned from an extensive collection of reviews, many of which are not readily available, provides fascinating insights into the interests, obsessions, and resistances of Victorian readers. As Stevenson sought to escape the vocational straightjacket that confined him, his readers just as strenuously expressed their loyalty to outmoded images of Stevenson the author, and their distrust of the new guises in which he presented himself.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
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Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 3849676188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition is one the most complete Stevensonia collections. It contains a wealth of his essays, memories and records. The essays brought together under this title are chiefly Stevenson's reflections, ten years afterwards, on the experiences and friendships of his youth. They represent a proportion of his contributions of this kind to reviews and magazines, from 1882 to 1887. Some of the essays are : The Foreigner at Home, Old Mortality, Pastoral, The Manse, Thomas Stevenson, Talk and Talkers, The Character of Dogs and A Penny Plain.
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 714
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 676
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