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Life and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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THE SOUTH SEAS FICTION OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
… title suggests, this dissertation investigates Stevenson's works which are set in the South Pacific, works emerging from his study, experience, and observation during his travels through and residence in island of the South Pacific. The works discussed include a travel book, In the South Seas; …
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Language, Character and Decision in Robert Louis Stevenson
… Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature’, Robert Louis Stevenson refers to literature as ‘a strange art’ which, unlike its sister arts of painting and sculpture, is ‘condemned to work’ with ‘blocks’ of ‘arbitrary size and figure’: that is, with words. This thesis examines Stevenson’s work …
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The Early Literary Career of Robert Louis Stevenson
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Travel and adventure in the works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Abstract Available: P3-6.
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A director's approach to Jeffrey Hatcher's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
… to the divergent mythologies that exist around Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde tale. A brief examination of the life and work of Hatcher and the production history for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is included in the document along with an analysis of the script. Building upon this …
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Progress and degeneration: Adventure fiction at the end of the frontier
… as they were to speculating, authors like Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Rider Haggard, and Arthur Conan Doyle quickly set out to identify new avenues of exploration. As they did so, they often turned to science as a source of inspiration for identifying new unknowns to explore. Adventure …
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Obscured Visions: Psychology, Religion, and Mysticism in J. SHeridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
… contemporaries such as Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Charles Maturin—even though he likely influenced these later authors. Le Fanu’s novels and short stories explore the cultural zeitgeist of nineteenth-century Ireland and England in great detail—with particular attention …
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O eu e o outro : Dr. Jekyll vs Mr. Hyde : David Bowie vs Ziggy Stardust
… personagem principal da obra literária de Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. O médico e o cantor desenvolveram alter-egos que, numa primeira fase, os auxiliaram a atingir os seus propósitos. Bowie apresentou espectáculos únicos ao apresentar-se de forma …
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Fiction and the Reaction to Photography: Literalism, the Law and the Conditions and the Control of Reading from the Invention of Photography to the 1920s
… Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson. The study aims to illuminate how vision and reading are tied together and how visual codes are involved in how reading is experienced, conceptualised and carefully regulated. It also suggests how legal knowledge and methods …
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In the Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Disidentity in the Nineteenth Century
… Manley Hopkins to the popular Gothic novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker. These metaphorisations of a crisis for identity in the nineteenth century are reflected in the analyses of insanity by physicians such as W.A.F. Browne and Henry Maudsley, prominent cultural …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… I argue that Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Machen, and George Egerton offer Pan as an icon of competing pagan masculinities within the context of the contrast between Victorian secular ways of being worldly and pagan revivalist ways of being earthly I set out …
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‘They all looked such good meat’: Cannibal Metaphors in Early Twentieth Century English Fiction
… by David Livingstone, Henry M. Stanley, and Robert Louis Stevenson. While cannibalism in their writing is a process of othering, it is not a unidirectional process and rather rests on the unspoken awareness of the cannibal-in-oneself. Chapter Two, ‘Cannibalism in Imperial Fiction’, looks at …
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Aspects of national identity in the art songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams before the Great War
… Three examines the Songs of Travel (text by Robert Louis Stevenson). This chapter argues is that Vaughan Williams’s 1904 song cycle displays the composer’s fascination with the figure of the gypsy, and the life of the wanderer-- preoccupations that were characteristic of the gypsophilia of …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… in the divided self (with inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson), and those texts consider the subject of non-normative sexuality and its uncanny representations, natural and urban, as a horror that is attractive and abject--a source of fascination and a cause of disgust. The view that I …