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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Caroline McCracken-FlesherPublisher: Modern Language Association of America Imprint: Modern Language Association of America Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.360kg ISBN: 9781603291224ISBN 10: 1603291229 Pages: 238 Publication Date: 30 January 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews<p> For teachers of Stevenson from K-12 through graduate study . . . first-rate scholars provide a sophisticated overview of his wide-ranging literary output. <br><br><p>--Joseph Mc/pLaughlin, Ohio University <p>Although Robert Louis Stevenson was a late Victorian, his work--especially Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde --still circulates energetically and internationally among popular and academic audiences and among young and old. Admired by Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jorge Luis Borges, Stevenson's fiction crosses the boundaries of genre and challenges narrow definitions of the modern and the postmodern.<br><br><p>Part 1 of this volume, Materials, provides an introduction to the writer's life, a survey of the criticism of his work, and a variety of resources for the instructor. In part 2, Approaches, thirty essays address such topics as Stevenson's dialogue with James about literature; his verse for children; his Scottish heritage; his wanderlust; his work as gothic fiction, as science fiction, as detective fiction; his critique of imperialism in the South Seas; his usefulness in the creative writing classroom; and how he encourages expansive thinking across texts, times, places, and lives. Author InformationCaroline McCracken-Flesher is professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow and The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders and the editor of Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament and Scotland as Science Fiction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |