Title: Robert Louis Stevenson and theories of reading : the reader as vagabond /
Authors: Norquay, Glenda, 1958-
Publisher: Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Stevenson, Robert Louis, Books and reading.; Stevenson, Robert Louis, Criticism and interpretation.; Reading History and criticism.
Abstract: 'Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading' offers new contexts for the understanding of Stevenson's fictional and non-fictional writing and assesses Stevenson as both a Victorian and Scottish writer.
Contents: Introduction: the vagabonding reader -- The Calvinist configuration -- A 'fictitious article': Stevenson and nineteteenth-century literature culture -- 'Whores of the mind': the analysis of pleasure -- 'A landmark on the plains of history': covenanting history and The master of Ballantrae -- Textual haunting: Stevenson and Dumas -- Trading texts: Stevenson and the popular.