Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of Collaboration / / Audrey Murfin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Murfin, Audrey,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 7 B/W illustrations

Explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s collaborative processContains new readings of thirteen works by Robert Louis Stevenson, including several rarely discussedSheds light on connections between authorship, celebrity, the literary marketplace and the creative processSupported by extensive manuscript researchThis book investigates Stevenson’s literary collaborations with family and friends as he travelled Scotland, America and the Pacific. With critical readings of both major and minor Stevenson texts, supported and contextualised by unpublished manuscripts and letters by both Stevenson and those he wrote with, this book argues that Stevenson’s writings are both a product of and a meditation on collaborative writing. Stevenson’s self-reflective body of work reimagines late-Victorian authorship by examining the ways that authors choose material, negotiate the marketplace and, ultimately, maintain power over their own words, or let that power go.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Collaboration in Theory and Practice -- Chapter 1 Criminal Collaborators: Deacon Brodie and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- Chapter 2 Collaboration and Marriage: The Dynamiter -- Chapter 3 Counterpoint: Fanny’s and Louis’s Pacifi c Diaries -- Chapter 4 Disjecta Membra: Collaboration and the Body of the Text in The Wrong Box and The Master of Ballantrae -- Chapter 5 ‘A kind of partnership business’: The Wrecker and The Ebb-Tide -- Bibliography -- Index