Robert Louis Stevenson and Jospeh Conrad

by Dryden, Linda; Arata, Stephen; Massie, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780896726536
• ISBN10: 0896726533
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr

Summary

A fresh look at two pioneering modernists

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Stevenson and Conrad: Writers of Transition
History, Criticism, Theory, and the Strange Case of Joseph Conrad and R. L. Stevenson	p. 15
Stevenson and Conrad: The Ebb-Tide and Victory Revisited	p. 30
Conrad's and Stevenson's Logbooks and "Paper Boats": Attempts in Textual Wreckage	p. 39
Telling Them Apart: Conrad, Stevenson, and the Social Double	p. 52
Stevenson and Conrad: Writing the Empire
Allegories of the Self and of Empire: A Study of Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and of Conrad's "A Smile of Fortune"	p. 75
Cross-Cultural Encounters in In the South Seas and Heart of Darkness	p. 92
Conrad, Stevenson, and Cannibalism: Journeying Out of the Comfort Zone	p. 109
The Geopolitics of Criticism: The Sea as Liminal Symbol in Stevenson's The Ebb-Tide and Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands	p. 125
Treasure Island and Victory: Maps, Class, and Sexuality	p. 140
Social and Psychological Contexts
Conrad, the Stevensons, and the Imagination of Urban Chaos	p. 159
From the City to the Sea: The Double in Stevenson's "Markheim" and Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"	p. 175
"Affairs in Different Places": Symbolic Geography in Stevenson and Conrad	p. 190
Beyond Freud and Jung: The Analysis of Evil in Heart of Darkness and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	p. 208
Pleasant Spectres and Malformed Shades: Stevenson, Conrad, and Spiritualism	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 243
Contributors	p. 255
Index	p. 259
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