Dans le sillage des grands explorateurs, Robert Louis Stevenson succombe à son tour à l’appel des îles lorsqu’en 1887 il quitte son Écosse natale et, après un court séjour américain, s’en va ...sillonner les mers du Sud dans l’espoir d’y trouver un climat plus clément pour sa santé fragile, et plus propice à l’écriture. Ses pérégrinations insulaires dureront deux ans et le mèneront à s’installer définitivement aux Samoa avec sa femme Fanny et sa famille : ils y bâtiront son ultime demeure, la ma...
Of the Saranac bas-relief, the New York Times article from the day of the unveiling described the intent of the artist: “Stevenson is shown walking on the veranda where…he says in his letters he ...gained inspiration for Ballantrae and the great Scribner essays. Carved into granite in the Black Hills of South Dakota on land that had been illegally seized from the Lakota tribe during a gold rush in the 1870s, this national memorial has also been the subject of criticism for aspects of the actions of each of the men it memorializes. Cite This Article DOI: 10.3201/eid2703.ac2703 Original Publication Date: February 10, 2021 Related Links * About Cover Art * Past Covers * Past Issues Table of Contents – Volume 27, Number 3—March 2021 Comments Please use the form below to submit correspondence to the authors or contact them at the following address: Terence Chorba, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop US 12-4, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, USA Return Address Send To Send To authors Authors editors Editors Comments 10000 character(s) remaining.
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.
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Sets Stevenson in his literary, scientific and political contextsCovers a broad range of Stevenson's fiction and non-fictionWritten by a team of international scholarsIncludes an authoritative introduction and select bibliography
ISBN : 9782070112708 1 Dans le sillage des grands explorateurs, Robert Louis Stevenson succombe à son tour à Pappel des îles lorsqu'en 1887 il quitte son Écosse natale et, après un court séjour ...américain, s'en va sillonner les mers du Sud dans l'espoir d'y trouver un climat plus clément pour sa santé fragile, et plus propice à l'écriture. L'introduction s'achève par une évocation des « sillages » de Stevenson, ou des nombreux auteurs qui se lanceront sur ses traces et revendiqueront son influence sur eux, malgré la réception parfois négative que lui réservera la critique, jusqu'à ce que soit plus récemment redécouvert son art de la fiction. 4 Le volume s'ouvre ensuite sur la traduction de Veillées des îles par Mathieu Duplay, remarquable par son effort de précision dans la retranscription du contexte socioculturel polynésien, à travers un apparat critique très détaillé. Outre cette précision linguistique et scientifique, cette belle traduction s'efforce également de rendre justice à la poésie de la langue stevensonienne, comme en témoigne le premier paragraphe de La Plage de Falesa, particulièrement réussi en la matière : « Quand l'île m'apparut pour la première fois, ce n'était ni la nuit ni l'aube. En outre, on regrette que l'apparat critique n'explique par certaines références culturelles et préfère avoir recours à des équivalences plus ou moins proches de l'original : le capitaine traite par exemple son équipage de « F.F.V.'s3 » en anglais, ce qui signifie « flying fish voyager », un terme péjoratif faisant référence aux marins capables de naviguer uniquement dans des conditions favorables, comme l'explique Roslyn Jolly dans son édition des South Sea Tales4.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) a rédigé Olalla à la fin de 1885, son texte devant paraître en décembre dans la toute récente Court and Society Review ; le public était alors friand, surtout en ...période de Noël, de « shilling shockers » et autres « ghost stories ». Cette histoire fantastique est racontée par un jeune officier écossais qui, blessé en Espagne, passe sa convalescence dans la demeure d’une antique famille princière désargentée et dégénérée. Dans la residencia isolée vivent une ...
This article aims to explore the way R. L. Stevenson and H. G. Wells use the insular space to go back to more timeless ways of writing and thus to revive insular romance in works such as The Ebb-Tide ...or The Island of Doctor Moreau. If by the turn of the 19th century, starting anew and being reborn on a desert island had become increasingly difficult, the island still offered the possibility of a form of literary re-birth or ‘renaissance’, by regressing to more ancient forms of story-telling while simultaneously innovating in terms of literary form and genre. This paper therefore aims to analyse the ambivalence of this insular ‘renaissance’, and the way it relies on pre-existing tropes and motifs while adapting to spatial and cultural changes in the insular context, in order to renew the adventure genre and offer an alternative to literary Realism at the turn of the 19th century. It moreover explores the motif of the island as laboratory, be it a scientific, a political or a literary one, and the various forms of revivals it leads to in the two authors’ works.
Throughout our adult lives we have both been haunted by a certain sense of doubleness—a feeling of dislocation, of being in the wrong place, of playing a role. Inspired by Stevenson’s novel Strange ...Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde we explore this doubleness through evocative, dual, autoethnographic accounts of academic conferences. By analysing our stories in an iterative process of writing, reading, rewriting and rereading, we seek to extend the reach of much recent autoethnographic research. Presenting ourselves as objects of research, we show how, for us, contemporary academic identity is problematic in that it necessarily involves being (at least) ‘both’ Jekyll and Hyde. In providing readings of our stories, we show how autoethnography can make two contributions to the study of identity in organizations. The first is that autoethnographic accounts may provide scholars with new forms of empirical material—case studies in identity work. The second contribution highlights the value of experimenting with unorthodox approaches—such as explicitly using novels and other literary sources to study identity.
    Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries reinstates Stevenson at the center of critical debate and demonstrates the sophistication of his writings and the present ...relevance of his kaleidoscopic achievements. While most young readers know Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) as the author of Treasure Island , few people outside of academia are aware of the breadth of his literary output. The contributors to Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries look, with varied critical approaches, at the whole range of his literary production and unite to confer scholarly legitimacy on this enormously influential writer who has been neglected by critics.      As the editors point out in their Introduction, Stevenson reinvented the “personal essay” and the “walking tour essay,” in texts of ironic stylistic brilliance that broke completely with Victorian moralism. His first full-length work of fiction, Treasure Island , provocatively combined a popular genre (subverting its imperialist ideology) with a self-conscious literary approach.     Stevenson, one of Scotland’s most prolific writers, was very effectively excluded from the canon by his twentieth-century successors and rejected by Anglo-American Modernist writers and critics for his play with popular genres and for his non-serious metaliterary brilliance. While Stevenson’s critical recognition has been slowly increasing, there have been far fewer published single-volume studies of his works than those of his contemporaries, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.
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