Prince Otto, by Robert Louis Stevenson / / Robert P. Irvine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Irvine, Robert P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson : NEECWRLS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations

A playful, self-reflexive tale of politics and ethics.In Prince Otto, first published in serial form in 1885, Stevenson uses his genius for adventure and romance to explore some decidedly grown-up themes. The tiny nineteenth-century German state of Grünewald seems to be a principality of the world of fairy-tale. But its ruler is beset in public by the forces of modern politics, and troubled in private by an unhappy marriage. Ill-prepared to deal with either, Otto is forced to choose between them.Key Features This first fully edited edition of the novel will provoke readers to think again about the scope and purpose of Stevenson's brilliant story-tellingExplores the most modern of themes, the moral compromises required by marriage: a romance in which the marriage of the hero and the heroine is not the happy conclusion of the plot, but the problem that the plot has to resolveA fascinating text for what it tells us about Stevenson's goals and aspirations at this crucial stage of his career, and about the changing nature of the novel in English at the end of the nineteenth-century - see the Introduction and critical apparatus

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface by the General Editors -- List of Abbreviations -- Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson -- Introduction -- PRINCE OTTO -- Dedication -- Book I. Prince Errant -- Book II. Of Love and Politics -- Book III. Fortunate Misfortune -- Bibliographical Postscript -- Appendices -- Note on the Text -- Emendation List -- End-of-Line Hyphens -- Explanatory Notes