Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of Collaboration
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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- ISBN 9781474451994
- Weight: 321g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2021
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s collaborative process
Contains new readings of thirteen works by Robert Louis Stevenson, including several rarely discussedSheds light on connections between authorship, celebrity, the literary marketplace and the creative processSupported by extensive manuscript research
This book investigates Stevenson’s literary collaborations with family and friends as he travelled Scotland, America and the Pacific. With critical readings of both major and minor Stevenson texts, supported and contextualised by unpublished manuscripts and letters by both Stevenson and those he wrote with, this book argues that Stevenson’s writings are both a product of and a meditation on collaborative writing.
Stevenson’s self-reflective body of work reimagines late-Victorian authorship by examining the ways that authors choose material, negotiate the marketplace and, ultimately, maintain power over their own words, or let that power go.
Audrey Murfin is Assistant Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. Her publications include “Arthur Morrison, Mimesis and Social Justice: Following Dickens’s Dark Legacy through the Late-Victorian Slums.” The Literary London Journal 11 (2014): 4–21, “‘Part Alive, Part Putrescent’: Coral, Culture, and Contagion in the Island Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson.” Victorians Institute Journal 40 (2012): 33-56, and “The Gothic Challenge to Victorian Realism: Buried Narratives in Villette, Aurora Leigh, and Lady Audley’s Secret.” The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies 10 (2011): 31 pages.
