Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism

by Chris Shilling, Sandison

Overview

Despite attracting the admiration of Modernists like Nabokov and Borges, Stevenson remains for many an apologist for the lost world of the romance. This is not only to misread and simplify his fiction, it is greatly to undervalue his lively, forward-looking literary essays. Strenously resisting the authority of the literary 'fathers' (though haunted by the complexities of paternity), Stevenson reveals strong affinities with emergent Modernism. It is from this perspective that Alan Sandison's latest book (the first to appear for nearly thirty years) conducts a lively and readable re-examination of this often underrated writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333620670
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/21/1996
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Introduction: A Future Feeling - The Crisis of Paternity - Treasure Island: The Parrot's Tale - Arabesque - Prince Otto: To Write and Obliterate - Kidnapped: The Missing Storey - Jekyll and Hyde: The Story of the Door - 'No other Father': Title Deeds in The Master of Ballantrae - The Ebb-Tide: A Modernist in the South Seas - Weir of Hermiston: The Horizon of Silence - Index