Édimbourg-La-Morte: The Fantastic in Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson
That Charles Dickens—most English of writers—should feature in Études écossaises will seem bizarre to those unacquainted with (or unsympathetic to) comparative literary studies. However, Dickens’s first major journalistic assignment, in 1834, centred on Edinburgh where he covered Scotland’s recepti...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Language: | Anglais |
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Études écossaises
2020
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | That Charles Dickens—most English of writers—should feature in Études écossaises will seem bizarre to those unacquainted with (or unsympathetic to) comparative literary studies. However, Dickens’s first major journalistic assignment, in 1834, centred on Edinburgh where he covered Scotland’s reception of Earl Grey, the prime minister who had nurtured the 1832 Reform Bill through Parliament. Seven years later, Dickens himself was honoured in the Scottish capital. These facts in themselves may ... |
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