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Robert Louis Stevenson and Stanley J. Weyman: Reviving Romancers or Aging Adventurers?
Ist Teil von
English literature in transition, 1880-1920, 2012-03, Vol.55 (2), p.176-194
Ort / Verlag
Greensboro: ELT Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线
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.