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Robert Louis Stevenson [[electronic resource] ] : writer of boundaries / / edited by Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury
| Robert Louis Stevenson [[electronic resource] ] : writer of boundaries / / edited by Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | xxx, 377 p. ; ; 24 cm |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AmbrosiniRichard
DuryRichard |
| ISBN |
0299212203
0299212246 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996248097403316 |
| Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Robert Louis Stevenson : writer of boundaries / / edited by Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury
| Robert Louis Stevenson : writer of boundaries / / edited by Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (409 p.) |
| Disciplina | 828/.809 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AmbrosiniRichard
DuryRichard |
| ISBN |
9786612269912
9781282269910 1282269917 9780299212230 0299212238 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Part I The Pleasures of Reading, a Writing, and Popular Culture -- Stevenson, Morris, and the Value of Idleness -- Living in a Book: RLS as an Engaged Reader -- The Four Boundary-Crossings of R. L. Stevenson, Novelist and Anthropologist -- Stevenson and the (Un)familiar: The Aesthetics of Late-Nineteenth-Century Biography -- The Greenhouse vs. the Glasshouse: Stevenson's Stories as Textual Matrices -- Trading Texts: Negotiations of the Professional and the Popular in the Case of Treasure Island -- Stevenson and Popular Entertainment -- Tontines, Tontine Insurance, and Commercial Culture: Stevenson and Osbourne's The Wrong Box -- Part II Scotland and the South Seas -- The Master of Ballantrae or the Writing of Frost and Stone -- Quarreling with the Father -- Figures in a Landscape: Scott, Stevenson, and Routes to the Past -- Burking the Scottish Body: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Ressurection Men -- Stevenson's Unfinished Autopsy of the Other -- Voices of the Scottish Empire -- Stevenson and the Property of Language: Narrative, Value, Modernity -- Light, Darkness, and Shadow: Stevenson in the South Seas -- Violence in the South Seas: Stevenson, the Eye, and Desire -- Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: The South Seas from Journal to Fiction -- Part III Evolutionary Psychology, Masculinity, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Stevenson, Romance, and Evolutionary Psychology -- Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Evolution: Crossing the Boundaries between Ideas and Art -- Crossing the Bounds of Single Identity: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and a Paper in a French Scientific Journal -- "City of Dreadful Night": Stevenson's Gothic London -- Pious Works: Aesthetics, Ethics, and the Modern Individual in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Consumerism and Stevenson's Misfit Masculinities -- "Markheim" and the Shadow of the Other -- Part IV Textual and Cultural Crossings -- Masters of the Hovering Life: Robert Musil and R. L. Stevenson -- Whitman and Thoreau as Literary Stowaways in Stevenson's American Writings -- The Pirate Chief in Salgari, Stevenson, and Calvino -- Murder by Suggestion: El Sueno de los heroes and The Master of Ballantrae -- Contributors -- Index of Stevenson's works -- General Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910971216403321 |
| Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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