
The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson
Penny Fielding(Editor)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 6. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7486-3555-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 Features* Sets Stevenson in his literary, scientific and political contexts* Covers a broad range of Stevenson's fiction and non-fiction* Written by a team of international scholars* Includes an authoritative introduction and select bibliography
Reviews / Votes
This addition to the Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature is worthreading. The collection offers subtle and well-informed critical evaluations of Robert Louis Stevenson's work. -- Ann C. Colley * Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 66, No. 4 * These editions finally settle the question of Stevenson's right to be handled by the most rigorous and demanding patterns of literary criticism. As single essays they are useful, as collections they are indispensable. -- David Miller, University of Stirling * Scottish Literary Review * Overall, the collections offers some impressive statements in Stevenson criticsim, particularly in its focus on neglected works and its provision of important discursive contexts for the anaylsis of Stevenson's texts. -- Oliver S. Buckton * Victorian Studies: Volume 54, No.5 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
324 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-3555-9 (9780748635559)
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Penny Fielding is Senior Lecturer in English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh and one of the General Editors of the New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Her books include Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain 1760-1830 (CUP, 2008) and Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction (OUP, 1996) as well as an edition of Scott's The Monastery for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh EUP, 2000).
Content
1. Stevenson and Fiction, Ian Duncan; 2. Romance and Social Class, Robert P. Irvine; 3. Childhood and Psychology, Julia Reid; 4. Stevenson and Fin-de-Siecle Gothic, Stephen Arata; 5. Stevenson, Scott and Scottish History, Alison Lumsden; 6. Travel Writing, Caroline McCracken-Flesher; 7. Stevenson's Poetry, Penny Fielding; 8. Stevenson and the Pacific, Roslyn Jolly; 9. Stevenson and Henry James, John Lyon; 10. Stevenson's Afterlives, Alex Thomson.