Weir of Hermiston, by Robert Louis Stevenson / / R. L. Stevenson, Gillian Hughes.
Explores the detailed evolution of the work through its composition and on to eventual posthumous publicationStevenson’s unfinished masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston, has been entirely re-edited from his final manuscript, revealing a rather different novel from the bowdlerised version produced posthumo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson : NEECWRLS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface by the General Editors
- List of Abbreviations
- Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Introduction
- Dedication
- Weir of Hermiston
- Chapter 1. Life and Death of Mrs. Weir
- Chapter 2. Father and Son
- Chapter 3. In the Matter of the Hanging of Duncan Jopp
- Chapter 4. Opinions of the Bench
- Chapter 5. Winter on the Moors
- Chapter 6. A Leaf from Christina’s Psalm-Book
- Chapter 7. Enter Mephistopheles
- Chapter 8. A Nocturnal Visit
- Chapter 9. At the Weaver’s Stone
- Appendices
- Essay on the Text
- Emendation List
- End-of-Line Hyphens
- Historical and Geographical Note
- Explanatory Notes
- Glossary