Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Norquay, Glenda

Titel

Robert Louis Stevenson and Stanley J. Weyman: Reviving Romancers or Aging Adventurers?

Ist Teil von

• English literature in transition, 1880-1920, 2012-01, Vol.55 (2), p.176-194

Ort / Verlag

Greensboro: ELT Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The focus of the challenge on Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel St. Ives--the dynamic between youth and age that lies at the heart of the genre--is, moreover, one also found in two novels by Stanley J. Weyman, whose work Stevenson devoured "with the greed and gusto of a pig" in the last year of his life, while working on St. Ives. It suggests that for Stevenson, at this point in time, the renewed flourishing of adventure romance, generally celebrated as creating a new manliness in fiction, demanded a more complicated engagement with revivification. Norquay argues that in historic romances produced by Weyman and Stevenson towards the end of that moment of revival, the contradictions of youth and age are explicitly addressed in ways that makes easy consumption of the romance form difficult.