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A superb and fluent account, Jacqueline Overton begins each of her chapters with a short yet poignant verse, setting the stage for her narrative. We learn of Stevenson's upbringing and young adulthood in Scotland, the hardships he endured while attending his schooling, and the setbacks with his health that would prove a challenge throughout his entire life. We learn how Stevenson spent much of his adulthood travelling, either to warmer places for recovery of health or with a view to settling longer term. His writing is shown to be intermittent; Stevenson would alternately not work at all for months at a time, then produce flurries of writing, much of which was quickly acclaimed upon publication. Robert Louis Stevenson is most famous for a series of novels, most famously the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which depicts a doctor with two vastly different personalities. Overton deftly quotes the author's letters, and we are given a sense of Stevenson as a person - a man whose sensitive soul determined to make life an adventure worthy of the telling in biographies such as this.

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Stevenson often collaborated with family and friends, sometimes acknowledged, and sometimes not. Early collaborations include three plays with his friend W. E. Henley. Later, he and his wife Fanny co-authored a volume of linked stories, More New Arabian Nights, also titled The Dynamiter (1885). Fanny also contributed to other work that did not bear her name. The core question this book addresses is this: why would this famous and successful author of Scottish literature practice a creative process that burdened him with inexpert collaborators? The answer to this question can be found in Stevenson's novels, essays and plays, which dramatize the process of collaboration. Stevenson creates an alternate narrative of what it means to write-one that challenges commonly held assumptions about the celebrity cult of the author in Victorian literature, and notions of authorship more generally.

Stevenson, Robert Louis, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Authorship --- Collaboration.

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Explores the detailed evolution of the work through its composition and on to eventual posthumous publicationStevenson’s unfinished masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston, has been entirely re-edited from his final manuscript, revealing a rather different novel from the bowdlerised version produced posthumously by his friends. Stevenson revisits the conflicted Scotland of James Hogg and Sir Walter Scott as well as that of his own youth, but also responds to recently published novels. A substantial essay explores the complex early publication history of the novel on both sides of the Atlantic, and exceptionally full explanatory notes and other background information are provided.Key FeaturesComposition history drawing on draft manuscript material in various US archivesDetailed account of early publication history in the UK and USAFull Explanatory Notes including citations from draft manuscript material as well as historical and geographical notes

Stevenson, Robert Louis, --- Country life --- Fathers and sons --- Judges --- Young men --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General.

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This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts. The book takes account of both Stevenson's extraordinary thematic and generic diversity and his geographical range. The chapters explore his relation to late nineteenth-century publishing, psychology, travel, the colonial world, and the emergence of modernism. Through the pivotal figure of Stevenson, the collection explores how literary publishing and cultural life changed across the second half of the nineteenth century. Stevenson emerges as a complex writer, author bot

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