Titlebook: Robert Louis Stevenson; A Literary Life William Gray Book 2004 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004 America.

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Book 2004l and political contexts that shaped it, from Scotland to the South Seas. Following Stevenson‘s own views on biography, the book is not structured primarily in terms of chronology, but is more a kind of literary geography than traditional literary history.

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The French Connection,on in his introduction to . that: ‘mentally he [Stevenson] was half a Frenchman; in taste, habits, and prepossessions he was almost wholly French. Not only did he speak French admirably and read it like his mother-tongue, but he loved both country and people, and was really more at home in France th

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Forever Scotland,blication, .. (appearing in a limited edition at his father’s expense in 1866), but also the books he was working at the time of his death, . and .,. were deeply enmeshed in the history and landscape of Scotland. And particularly of Southern Scotland, it might be added, for although Stevenson’s fict

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America, Walt Whitman. In an autobiographical fragment composed in San Francisco early in 1880, Stevenson recalled that what had helped him to move on from his miserable ‘days of green-sickness’ as a young man in Edinburgh was ‘the study of Walt Whitman’ (. 84–6). As he put it in his essay on Whitman, . was

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Conclusion,de. Nevertheless in the end he started to succumb to sheer exhaustion, due mainly to the constant pressure of having to grind out copy, in at best indifferent health. As he wrote to George Meredith in September 1893: . He was also greatly distressed by Fann’s symptoms of mantal illness.

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Book 2004r genre) has tended to eclipse his literary achievement. This study focuses on Stevenson‘s writing practice within the different geographical, cultural and political contexts that shaped it, from Scotland to the South Seas. Following Stevenson‘s own views on biography, the book is not structured pri

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