Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of Collaboration

Audrey Murfin

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of Collaboration

Audrey Murfin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474452007

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About this book

Explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s collaborative process

Contains new readings of thirteen works by Robert Louis Stevenson, including several rarely discussed
Sheds light on connections between authorship, celebrity, the literary marketplace and the creative process
Supported by extensive manuscript research

This book investigates Stevenson’s literary collaborations with family and friends as he travelled Scotland, America and the Pacific. With critical readings of both major and minor Stevenson texts, supported and contextualised by unpublished manuscripts and letters by both Stevenson and those he wrote with, this book argues that Stevenson’s writings are both a product of and a meditation on collaborative writing.

Stevenson’s self-reflective body of work reimagines late-Victorian authorship by examining the ways that authors choose material, negotiate the marketplace and, ultimately, maintain power over their own words, or let that power go.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Collaboration in Theory and Practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Criminal Collaborators: Deacon Brodie and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 2 Collaboration and Marriage: The Dynamiter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 3 Counterpoint: Fanny’s and Louis’s Pacifi c Diaries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 4 Disjecta Membra: Collaboration and the Body of the Text in The Wrong Box and The Master of Ballantrae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter 5 ‘A kind of partnership business’: The Wrecker and The Ebb-Tide Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Illustrations
- Other: 7 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474452007