Complete Personal Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

With an engaging and distinctive style, Robert Louis Stevenson's personal essays draw on his own experience and observations to explore a broad range of topics from illness and evolution to marriage and dreams, and from literal and literary travel to the behavior of children and the character of dogs. Stevenson examines beggars and university students, immigrants and engineers, invalids and nurses, grappling with many of the cultural, aesthetic, and ethical questions of his time.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Text and Annotations
From Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
From Memories and Portraits
From Across the Plains with other Memories and Essays
Uncollected Published Essays
Unpublished and Early Essays
Emendations List

About the author

Trenton B. Olsen is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University–Idaho, USA. He is the author of Wordsworth and Evolution in Victorian Literature: Entangled Influence (2019).

Product details

• Authors: Trenton B. Olsen
• Assisted by: Trenton B. Olsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367180485
• ISBN: 978-0-367-18048-5
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: Routledge Historical Resources
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies