Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific
Author : Arthur Johnstone
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Novelists, English
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Author : Arthur Johnstone
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Novelists, English
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Author : ARTHUR. JOHNSTONE
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2019
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ISBN : 9781033512401
Author : Arthur Johnstone
Publisher :
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Authors, Scottish
ISBN : 9780848213640
Author : Arthur Johnstone
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Authors, Scottish
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Author : Roslyn Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351902741
Robert Louis Stevenson's departure from Europe in 1887 coincided with a vocational crisis prompted by his father's death. Impatient with his established identity as a writer, Stevenson was eager to explore different ways of writing, at the same time that living in the Pacific stimulated a range of latent intellectual and political interests. Roslyn Jolly examines the crucial period from 1887 to 1894, focusing on the self-transformation wrought in Stevenson's Pacific travel-writing and political texts. Jolly shows how Stevenson's desire to understand unfamiliar Polynesian and Micronesian cultures, and to record and intervene in the politics of Samoa, gave him opportunities to use his legal education, pursue his interest in historiography, and experiment with anthropology and journalism. Thus as his geographical and cultural horizons expanded, Stevenson's professional sphere enlarged as well, stretching the category of authorship in which his successes as a novelist had placed him. Rather than enhancing his stature as a popular writer, however, Stevenson's experiments with new styles and genres, and the Pacific subject matter of his later works, were resisted by his readers. Jolly's analysis of contemporary responses to Stevenson's writing, gleaned from an extensive collection of reviews, many of which are not readily available, provides fascinating insights into the interests, obsessions, and resistances of Victorian readers. As Stevenson sought to escape the vocational straightjacket that confined him, his readers just as strenuously expressed their loyalty to outmoded images of Stevenson the author, and their distrust of the new guises in which he presented himself.
Author : Arthur Johnstone
Publisher :
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Carla Manfredi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 331998313X
This book tackles photography’s role during Robert Louis Stevenson’s travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family’s previously unpublished photographs. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book integrates photographs with letters, non-fiction, and poetry, and includes much unpublished material. The original readings of photographs and non-fiction highlight Stevenson’s engagement with colonial ideology and reality and advance new arguments about Victorian travel, settlement, and colonialisms in the Pacific. Like the Stevensons, the book moves from the Marquesas to the atolls of the Gilbert Islands in Micronesia; from the Kingdom of Hawai‘i’s political ambitions to Samoan plantations and the Stevensons’ settlement at Vailima. Central to this study is the notion that Pacific history and Pacific Island cultures matter to the interpretation of Stevenson's work, and a rigorous historical and cultural contextualization ensures that local details structure literary and photographic interpretation. The book’s historical grounding is key to its insightful conclusions regarding travel, settlement, photography, and colonialism.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 1438113455
Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Author : Sidney Colvin
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Authors, Scottish
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Author : Johannesburg (South Africa). Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Biblioteekkatalogi
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