Add to ORKGFirst paragraph: Stevenson was the outstanding romancer os his age but also a crucial participant in the 1880s debate that first consolidated a theory of novelistic realism in English-language criticism. This essay documents his role in that 'art of fiction' debate with a particular interest in denaturalizing realism for undergraduates, both formally and historically. Revisiting Stevenson's dialogue with Henry James and appreciating the strength of his arguments against realism (he calls it 'the devil' in Letters 4: 141) can enrich and complicate monolithic notions of the novel's essential trueness to life. This episode also illuminates the reductive literary history that makes Stevenson's defense of romance sound so 'late' and his antireal...
This dissertation proposes that British novelistic realism of the nineteenth century is not an autho...
In this paper, I will show that formal realism tells only a very small part of the story of the 18th...
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Illinois, 1915.Typescript.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 56)
First paragraph: Stevenson was the outstanding romancer os his age but also a crucial participant in...
An analysis of the relationship between the two authors, their debates over romance and realism and ...
This thesis seeks to place Robert Louis Stevenson as an important contributor to the emergence of Mo...
This thesis looks at the work of Robert Louis Stevenson in the context of Northrop Frye's theory of...
Through a series of textual comparisons between Leigh Hunt’s essays and Charles Dickens’s early city...
In his own time, Robert Louis Stevenson was admired as a careful technician of language, a stylist t...
In this paper, I present a pastiche of Kathleen Stock responding to Raymond Tallis’s defence of real...
iv, 120 leaves ; 28 cm.This thesis investigates the way that moral and aesthetic concerns about the ...
The narratives of the Victorian writers are infused with detailed expositions of living, felt pictur...
461 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992.This study traces the changes...
This disssertation has attempted to put forth a resolute proposal and a plea for the inclusion of th...
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure (Robert Kiely) (Reviewed by Lionel Stevenson, Du...
This dissertation proposes that British novelistic realism of the nineteenth century is not an autho...
In this paper, I will show that formal realism tells only a very small part of the story of the 18th...
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Illinois, 1915.Typescript.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 56)
First paragraph: Stevenson was the outstanding romancer os his age but also a crucial participant in...
An analysis of the relationship between the two authors, their debates over romance and realism and ...
This thesis seeks to place Robert Louis Stevenson as an important contributor to the emergence of Mo...
This thesis looks at the work of Robert Louis Stevenson in the context of Northrop Frye's theory of...
Through a series of textual comparisons between Leigh Hunt’s essays and Charles Dickens’s early city...
In his own time, Robert Louis Stevenson was admired as a careful technician of language, a stylist t...
In this paper, I present a pastiche of Kathleen Stock responding to Raymond Tallis’s defence of real...
iv, 120 leaves ; 28 cm.This thesis investigates the way that moral and aesthetic concerns about the ...
The narratives of the Victorian writers are infused with detailed expositions of living, felt pictur...
461 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992.This study traces the changes...
This disssertation has attempted to put forth a resolute proposal and a plea for the inclusion of th...
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure (Robert Kiely) (Reviewed by Lionel Stevenson, Du...
This dissertation proposes that British novelistic realism of the nineteenth century is not an autho...
In this paper, I will show that formal realism tells only a very small part of the story of the 18th...
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Illinois, 1915.Typescript.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 56)