Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great Affair

Taylor & Francis

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great AffairMovement, Memory and Modernity\nAuthor(s): Richard J. Hill\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472469359, 978-1472469359\nSynopsis\nIn his travel narrative Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes [tel], Robert Louis Stevenson declares, \""I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.\"" Taking up the concepts of time, place, and memory, the contributors to this collection explore in what ways the dynamic view of life suggested by this quotation permeates Stevenson's work. The essays adopt a wide variety of critical approaches, including post-colonial theory, post-structuralism, new historicism, art history, and philosophy, making use of the vast array of literary materials that Stevenson left across a global journey that began in Scotland in 1850 and ended in Samoa in 1894. These range from travel journals, letters, and classic.