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Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad : writers of transition / edited by Linda Dryden, Stephen Arata, and Eric Massie.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894--Literary style.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Literary style.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
- Dualism in literature.
- Liminality in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Literary style.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 273 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Robert Louis Stevenson & Joseph Conrad
- Place of Publication:
- Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- "Assesses points of convergence between Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. Extends arguments about the authors' South Seas literature, offering new critiques on the writers' literary histories, writing styles, romance and adventure modes, fictions of duality, experience in Victorian London, explorations of the human psyche, and fame"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Stevenson and Conrad: Writers of Transition
- History, Criticism, Theory, and the Strange Case of Joseph Conrad and R. L. Stevenson / Richard Ambrosini 15
- Stevenson and Conrad: The Ebb-Tide and Victory Revisited / Eric Massie 30
- Conrad's and Stevenson's Logbooks and "Paper Boats": Attempts in Textual Wreckage / Nathalie Jaeck 39
- Telling Them Apart: Conrad, Stevenson, and the Social Double / Laurence Davies 52
- Part 2 Stevenson and Conrad: Writing the Empire
- Allegories of the Self and of Empire: A Study of Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and of Conrad's "A Smile of Fortune" / Andrea White 75
- Cross-Cultural Encounters in In the South Seas and Heart of Darkness / Monica Bungaro 92
- Conrad, Stevenson, and Cannibalism: Journeying Out of the Comfort Zone / Ann C. Colley 109
- The Geopolitics of Criticism: The Sea as Liminal Symbol in Stevenson's The Ebb-Tide and Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands / Robbie B. H. Goh 125
- Treasure Island and Victory: Maps, Class, and Sexuality / Robert Hampson 140
- Part 3 Social and Psychological Contexts
- Conrad, the Stevensons, and the Imagination of Urban Chaos / Deaglan O'Donghaile 159
- From the City to the Sea: The Double in Stevenson's "Markheim" and Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" / Martin Danahay 175
- "Affairs in Different Places": Symbolic Geography in Stevenson and Conrad / Jane V. Rago 190
- Beyond Freud and Jung: The Analysis of Evil in Heart of Darkness and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Nancy Bunge 208
- Pleasant Spectres and Malformed Shades: Stevenson, Conrad, and Spiritualism / Stephen Donovan 223.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780896726536
- 0896726533
- OCLC:
- 299381425
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