The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson / / Penny Fielding.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Fielding, Penny,
• MitwirkendeR: Arata, Stephen,; Duncan, Ian,; Fielding, Penny,; Irvine, Robert P.,; Jolly, Roslyn,; Lumsden, Alison,; Lyon, John,; McCracken-Flesher, Caroline,; Reid, Julia,; Thomson, Alex,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature : ECSL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

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' literary contexts from Scotland to the South Pacific, and show him to be one of the key writers for understanding the growing sense of globalisation and cultural heterogeneity in the late nineteenth century.Key FeaturesSets Stevenson in his literary, scientific and political contextsCovers a broad range of Stevenson's fiction and non-fictionWritten by a team of international scholarsIncludes an authoritative introduction and select bibliography

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Brief Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Stevenson and Fiction -- CHAPTER TWO Romance and Social Class -- CHAPTER THREE Childhood and Psychology -- CHAPTER FOUR Stevenson and Fin- de- Siècle Gothic -- CHAPTER FIVE Stevenson, Scott and Scottish History -- CHAPTER SIX Travel Writing -- CHAPTER SEVEN Stevenson’s Poetry -- CHAPTER EIGHT Stevenson and the Pacific -- CHAPTER NINE Stevenson and Henry James -- CHAPTER TEN Stevenson’s Afterlives -- Endnotes -- Further Reading -- Notes on Contributors -- Index