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French Translations and Translators of Stevenson
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Katherine Ashley
Published: 26 April 2022
... Marcel Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis works of translations and translators Le Gaulois Journal des voyages Romains Jules American Art News Defauconpret Auguste Low Berthe Savine Albert Scott Walter Varlet Théo Cassell Hetzel Pierre Jules Sand George Schérer Edmond Young...
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Stevenson in French Literary History
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Katherine Ashley
Published: 26 April 2022
... Nouvelle Revue française Rzewuski Stanislas Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis works of Wells H G Bentzon Thérèse Davray Henri D Carré Jean Marie L’Intransigeant Pater Walter Schwob Marcel Uzanne Octave Wyzewa Teodor de Revue des deux mondes Bourdieu Pierre Daudet Alphonse degree...
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Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Literary Relations at the Fin de Siècle
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Katherine Ashley
Published online: 23 May 2024
Published in print: 26 April 2022
...This book studies how Robert Louis Stevenson wrote about France, how he interpreted French literature, how he incorporated French into his writing, and how and why the earliest French critics translated, disseminated and interpreted his work. It does so in the context of debates surrounding...
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Strange Cases of the Queer fin de siècle: Law, Medicine and the Gothic Imaginative Mode
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Jamil Mustafa
Published: 17 October 2023
... play out in three classic end-of-century Gothic tales: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); Arthur Machen’s best-known piece of ‘weird fiction’ – The Great God Pan (1894); and, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). While many...
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Home and Abroad in the South Pacific: Spaces and Places in Robert Louis Stevenson and Katherine Mansfield’s Short Fiction
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Stefanie Rudig
Published: 30 October 2013
...This essay focuses on the parallels between two (proto-)modernist stories: ‘The Beach of Falesá’ by Robert Louis Stevenson and Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Prelude’. Even though the authors’ movements across the Pacific were diametrically opposed, their novella-length stories lend themselves...
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Criminal Collaborators: Deacon Brodie and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Audrey Murfin
Published: 01 October 2019
... Sigmund Norquay Glenda Stewart Garrett Carroll Lewis Swift Jonathan Stillinger Jack Thomas Ronald R author control Robert Louis Stevenson Literary collaboration W. E. Henley Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Deacon Brodie The Body Snatcher Theater and literature A Chapter on Dreams ‘When you play...
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The Price of Paradise: Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and British Expansion in the Pacific
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Jennifer Fuller
Published: 01 July 2016
...The fourth chapter turns to British settlers in the Pacific whose attempts to create ideal colonies reveal the weaknesses inherent in the British concept of themselves as a “superior” civilizing force. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Vailima Letters and The Beach of Falesá ...
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Dark Paradise: Pacific Islands in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination
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Jennifer Fuller
Published online: 21 September 2017
Published in print: 01 July 2016
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Feelings for Nature in Victorian Scotland
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Louisa Gairn
Published: 01 May 2008
...This chapter considers the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson alongside those of nineteenth-century mountaineering intellectuals John Veitch and John Stuart Blackie, land rights campaigners, and the poetry of Gaelic crofters, which, taken together, demonstrate a crucial shift towards a more bodily...
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New Frankensteins; or, the Body Politic
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Timothy C. Baker
Published: 01 April 2017
... Robert Louis Stevenson Gothic Novels In the introduction to his 2001 anthology of ‘New Scottish Gothic Fiction’, Alan Bissett argues that Gothic ‘has always acted as a way of re-examining the past, and the past is the place where Scotland, a country obsessed with re-examining itself, can view itself...
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Published: 31 July 2013
... Chris Cannadine David Joyce James Ulysses Sassoon Siegfried Woolf Virginia World War One Strange Julie Marie Cemetery Robert Louis Stevenson Sheridan LeFanu Thomas Hardy Mary Elizabeth Braddon Mourning Melancholia Abject Revenant From one year to the next, they say, the Eusapia...
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Dignity, Disclosure, and the Right to Privacy: The Strange Characters of Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray
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Cathrine O. Frank
Published: 29 December 2021
... disclosure secrecy rumour personhood and property psychological realism realism Williams M Kellen Privacy Personality Dignity “The Right to Privacy” The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel Warren Louis Brandeis All...
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Mapping Literary Value: Imperial/Modernist Forms in the Illustrated London News
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Patrick Collier
Published: 06 September 2017
... these dynamics in text-and-image packages surrounding news from the empire, advertisements, and fiction by Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson. Armour G A Gosse Edmund imperialism journalism Samoa Stevenson Robert Louis Allen Grant Beetham Margaret Illustrated London News ILN meaning making...
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Literary Affinities and the Postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad
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Linda Dryden
Published: 13 June 2011
...This chapter considers Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad as writers whose imperial fictions voiced attitudes towards adventure and encounters that are at odds with much of the literature of empire that went before and with the romance and adventure genre of the likes of Rider Haggard...
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Collaboration in Theory and Practice
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Audrey Murfin
Published: 01 October 2019
...This chapter considers Robert Louis Stevenson’s collaborations in the context of criticism on literary collaboration. In order to define collaboration, we must consider four essential questions: is it acknowledged? is it mutual? is it equal? and is it separable? All authors receive advice from...
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Collaboration and Marriage: The Dynamiter
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Audrey Murfin
Published: 01 October 2019
... signature author Baxter Charles Macfarlane Robert plagiarism writing Robert Louis Stevenson Fanny Stevenson The Dynamiter The Hanging Judge The Nixie Family life The Thousand and One Nights terrorism In the 141 years since they met in 1876, there is no figure in Robert Louis Stevenson’s life...
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Published: 01 October 2019
... Graham Booth Bradford Hirsch Gordon Mehew Ernest Osbourne Katharine Durham Osbourne Lloyd Willis Alexander Willis Laulii Barnes William H Hunt white man on Samoa Selia first husband of Laulii Willis Walkowitz Judith Park Mungo Robert Louis Stevenson Fanny Stevenson In the South Seas...
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Stevenson as a Reader of French Literature
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Katherine Ashley
Published: 26 April 2022
... Franco British literary relations French literature and literary history Gautier Théophile Goncourts the Hugo Victor James Henry Naturalism novel the Sand George Montaigne Michel de Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis works of Béranger Pierre Jean de Colvin Sydney Cornhill...
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Stevenson as a Writer of French
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Katherine Ashley
Published: 26 April 2022
... Swinburne Algernon music prose poetry poetical prose Houssaye Arsène Mattos Katharine de La Presse Symons Arthur Scotsman Sitwell Frances Bourget Paul Dickens Charles Impressionism Meredith George Young Folks Irvine Robert P Lee Vernon Robert Louis Stevenson Correspondence Prose poems...
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Scottish Stereotyping, Highlandism, and Stevenson in Young Folks Paper
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Madeline B. Gangnes
Published: 30 April 2024
... of stereotyping and romanticisation (Highlandism) that often characterises Victorian depictions of Scotland. It argues that Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Kidnapped both interrupts and participates in a broader presentation of Scotland in Young Folks in ways that may complicate and, potentially, shape its readers...