Roslyn Jolly, Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific, Travel, Empire, and the Author’s Profession
Is Roslyn Jolly’s Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific, Travel, Empire, and the Author’s Profession (2009) yet another biography of Robert Louis Stevenson in the South Seas? Not so. It is a brand new read, which boldly sets out against the abundant “simplifying, smoothing, reductive” (p. 28) liter...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
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| Gaia: | Is Roslyn Jolly’s Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific, Travel, Empire, and the Author’s Profession (2009) yet another biography of Robert Louis Stevenson in the South Seas? Not so. It is a brand new read, which boldly sets out against the abundant “simplifying, smoothing, reductive” (p. 28) literature which, starting over a century ago, has contributed to building ‘a figure of romance’ out of “the writer of romances” (p. 172) in the Pacific. This work follows in the steps of recent critica... |
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