[PDF] A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion eBook

Author : Penny Fielding
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748635564

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This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts.The book takes account of both Stevenson's extraordinary thematic and generic diversity and his geographical range. The chapters explore his relation to late nineteenth-century publishing, psychology, travel, the colonial world, and the emergence of modernism in prose and poetry. Through the pivotal figure of Stevenson, the collection explores how literary publishing and cultural life changed across the second half of the nineteenth century. Stevenson emerges as a complex writer, author both of hugely popular boys' stories and of seminally important adult novels, as well as the literary figure who debated with Henry James the theory of fiction and the nature of realism.The collection shows how interest in the unconscious and changes in the conception of childhood demand that we re-evaluate our ideas of his writing. Individual essays by international experts trace Stevenson' lit

Author : J. Hammond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 1996-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230389988

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Stevenson died at the age of 44, but despite such a short span he lived an incredibly active life during which he travelled widely and wrote a prodigious amount of fiction, essays and poetry. To browse through this Chronology is to follow in the footsteps of a man who was always on the move, always eager to journey onto the next place or to embark on a new literary project. J.R. Hammond, a lifelong student of Stevenson and author of A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion, offers a definitive chronology of RLS which takes account of the latest research into his life and times.

Author : Reginald Charles Terry
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780877455127

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In recent years there has been a wave of enthusiasm for the author of these works, with the publication of major biographies and collections of his letters.

Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405145374

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A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain