Reid, Julia
Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle
1. Introduction: Stevenson, Evolution, and the ’Primitive’
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Part I. ‘[0]ur civilised nerves still tingle with … rude terrors and pleasures’: Romance and Evolutionary Psychology
2. Stevenson and the Art of Fiction
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3. Romance Fiction: ‘stories round the savage camp-fire’
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Part II. ‘Downward, downward lies your way’: Degeneration and Psychology
4. ‘There was less
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5. ‘Gothic gnomes’: Degenerate Fictions
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Part III. Stevenson as Anthropologist: Culture, Folklore, and Language
6. ‘The Foreigner at Home’: Stevenson and Scotland
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7. ‘[T]he clans disarmed, the chiefs deposed’: Stevenson in the South Seas
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8. Conclusion
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Nyckelord: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, Fiction
- Författare
- Reid, Julia
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2006
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Serie
- Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
- Sidantal
- 254 sidor
- Kategori
- Litteraturforskning
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230554849
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-0-230-23032-3