Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Literary Relations at the Fin de Siècle
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:26th Apr '22
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This study looks at French literature from Stevenson’s perspective and at Stevenson from a French perspective. Shedding light on how Stevenson’s use of French contributes to his distinct style, and how and why the earliest French critics translated, disseminated and interpreted his books, it does so in context of the debates surrounding the development of the novel at the fin de siècle. Readers learn how the artistic debates taking place in France contributed to the evolution of Stevenson’s art, but also how Stevenson became a model of literary innovation for French authors and critics who were seeking to renew the French novel.
A fascinating exploration of transnational Anglo-French literary history centred around a peripheral and generically innovative writer. Much inspired by French writers outside the canon, Stevenson evolved his own unique metaliterary combination of style and storytelling, then taken up by French writers as a model for how to progress beyond Naturalism. -- Richard Dury, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh
This work is thus an important contribution to Stevenson studies, and provides a very large overview of Stevenson’s relationship with France and French literature. The dual approach is particularly enlightening, and the diverse methodologies adopted in each chapter provide a certain variety that echoes Stevenson’s own variousness. [...]we can only concur with Ashley in her hope that this book ‘opens the door to studies on other aspects of the ties that bind Stevenson and France’, and encourages Stevensonians to pass through the door and continue on in this promising direction (p. 188). -- Julie Gay, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale * BAVS Newsletter *
ISBN: 9781474493239
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232 pages