Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Young Chevalier: Unimagined Space
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Chapitre d'ouvrage
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Living with Jacobitism, 1690-1788: The Three Kingdoms and Beyond, London : Pickering & Chatto.. 2014-11
English Abstract
The Young Chevalier’ is the fragment of a novel written in 1892 and first published posthumously in Volume 26 of the Edinburgh Edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson in 1897. This chapter examines Stevenson’s plans ...Read more >
The Young Chevalier’ is the fragment of a novel written in 1892 and first published posthumously in Volume 26 of the Edinburgh Edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson in 1897. This chapter examines Stevenson’s plans to redeploy Jacobite history in a less oblique manner than in his previous and much more familiar novels, Kidnapped and The Master of Ballantrae, both of which draw on Jacobite history and considers the possible reasons for the novel's unfinished state.Read less <