Publié le par Alexandre Gefen
Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading
The Reader as Vagabond
Glenda Norquay
Manchester University Press
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: the vagabonding reader
2. The Calvinist configuration
3. A 'fictitious article': Stevenson and nineteenth-century literary culture
4. 'Whores of the mind': the analysis of pleasure
5. 'A landmark on the plains of history': Covenanting history and The Master of Ballantrae
6. Textual haunting: Stevenson and Dumas
7. Trading texts: Stevenson and the popular
8. Conclusion.
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Glenda Norquay is Professor of Sccottish Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University