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Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism

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  • © 1996

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  1. Alan Sandison
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: ‘A Future Feeling’

    • Alan Sandison
    Pages 1-17

  3. A Crisis of Paternity

    • Alan Sandison
    Pages 18-47

  4. Treasure Island: The Parrot’s Tale

    • Alan Sandison
    Pages 48-81

  5. Arabesque

    • Alan Sandison
    Pages 82-144

  6. Prince Otto: To Write and Obliterate

    • Alan Sandison
    Pages 145-178

  7. Kidnapped and Catriona: The Missing Storey

    • Alan Sandison
    Pages 179-214

  8. Jekyll and Hyde: The Story of the Door

    • Alan Sandison
    Pages 215-269

  9. ‘No Other Father’: Title Deeds in The Master of Ballantrae

    • Alan Sandison
    Pages 270-316

  10. The Ebb-Tide: A Modernist in the South Seas

    • Alan Sandison
    Pages 317-368

  11. Weir of Hermiston: The Horizon of Silence

    • Alan Sandison
    Pages 369-414

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 415-424
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Despite attracting the admiration of Modernists like Nabokov and Borges, Stevenson remains for many an apologist for the lost world of the romance. This is not only to misread and simplify his fiction, it is greatly to undervalue his lively, forward-looking literary essays. Strenously resisting the authority of the literary 'fathers' (though haunted by the complexities of paternity), Stevenson reveals strong affinities with emergent Modernism. It is from this perspective that Alan Sandison's latest book (the first to appear for nearly thirty years) conducts a lively and readable re-examination of this often underrated writer.

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