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Novel Creatures - Animal Life and the New Millennium (Hardcover): Hilary Thompson Novel Creatures - Animal Life and the New Millennium (Hardcover)
Hilary Thompson
R3,901 Discovery Miles 39 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Novel Creatures takes a close look at the expanding interest in animals in modern times and argues that the novels of this period reveal a dramatic shift in conceptions of "creatureliness." Scholars have turned to the term "creaturely" recently to describe shared aspects of human and animal experience, thus moving beyond work that primarily attends to distinctions between the human and the animal. Carrying forward this recent scholarship, Novel Creatures argues that creatureliness has been an intensely millennial preoccupation, but in two contrasting forms-one leading up to the turn of the millennium, and the other appearing after the tragic events of 9/11.

Melville and the Question of Meaning (Hardcover): David Faflik Melville and the Question of Meaning (Hardcover)
David Faflik
R3,899 Discovery Miles 38 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers, Herman Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about thinking in Melville. For if Melville's concerns with interpretation (the contributors to one recent collection variously read the author for "the 'meaning' of the characters," the "meaning" of the "body," "recesses of meaning," "deepest levels of meaning," "double meaning," and the "meaning" of "being" and "everything else") overlap with our own concerns, at a cultural moment when meaning feels especially strained, we have lost sight of the central place of meaning making in Melville's work. My own readings in Melville are a pedestrian's guide through the self-conscious complications of meaning we meet with in Melville across a range of different disciplines and endeavors. Combining aesthetics and sociolinguistics, history and theory, rhetoric and politics, philosophy and film studies, Melville and the Question of Meaning demonstrates that the project of making meaning in Melville remains as vital as ever.

The Outsiders - Adolescent Tenderness and Staying Gold (Hardcover): Ann M Ciasullo The Outsiders - Adolescent Tenderness and Staying Gold (Hardcover)
Ann M Ciasullo
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume traces the unique trajectory of The Outsiders, from beloved book to beloved movie. Based on S.E. Hinton's landmark novel, Coppola's film adaptation tells the story of the Greasers, a gang of working-class boys yearning for security, love, and acceptance in a world ruled by their rival gang, the rich Socs. The Outsiders: Adolescent Tenderness and Staying Gold explores the cultural impact of Hinton's book, the process by which Coppola made the film, the film's melodramatic components, the marketing of the movie to a young female audience, and the nostalgia industry that has emerged around it in recent decades, thereby illuminating how The Outsiders stands apart from other teen films of the 1980s. In its depiction of the emotional rather than sexual lives of young men on film and its recognition of the desires of teen girls as an audience, The Outsiders distinguishes itself from the standard teen fare of the era. With seriousness and sincerity, Coppola's film captures the essence of the oft-repeated, timeless message of the story: 'Stay gold.' This volume engages with a wide range of disciplinary approaches-film studies, gender studies, and literary and cultural studies-in order to distinguish The Outsiders as the significant contribution to youth culture that it was in the early 1980s and continues to be in the twenty-first century. The book fills a gap in existing scholarship on youth culture, and is ideal for scholars, students and teachers in youth cultures, Young Adult literature, film studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.

Painting the Novel - Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (Hardcover): Jakub Lipski Painting the Novel - Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (Hardcover)
Jakub Lipski
R4,203 Discovery Miles 42 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting - a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of their fictions. In this, the novelists took part in the discussion of the sister arts, not only by pointing to the affinities between them but also, more importantly, by recognising their potential to inform one another; in other words, they expressed a conviction that the theory of a new genre can be successfully rendered through meta-pictorial analogies. By tracing the uses of painting in eighteenth-century novelistic discourse, this book sheds new light on the history of the so-called "rise of the novel". The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/painting-novel-jakub-lipski/10.4324/9781351137812, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

C S Lewis - A biography of friendship (Paperback, New edition): Colin Duriez C S Lewis - A biography of friendship (Paperback, New edition)
Colin Duriez 1
R339 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R62 (18%) In Stock

An Oxford student of C.S. Lewis's said he found his new tutor interesting, and was told by J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that. You'll never get to the bottom of him.' You can learn a great deal about people by their friends and nowhere is this more true than in the case of C.S. Lewis, the remarkable academic, author, populariser of faith - and creator of Narnia. He lost his mother early in life, and became estranged from his father, much to his regret. Throughout his life, key relationships mattered deeply to him, from his early days in the north of Ireland and his schooldays in England, as still a teenager in the trenches of World War One, and then later in Oxford. The friendships he cultivated throughout his life proved to be vital, influencing his thoughts, his beliefs and his writings. What did Arthur Greeves, a life-long friend from his adolescence, bring to him? How did J.R.R. Tolkien, and the other members of the now famous Inklings, shape him? Why, in his early twenties, did he move in with a single mother twice his age, Janie Moore, and live with her for so many years until her death? And why did he choose to marry so late? What of the relationship with his alcoholic and gifted brother, who eventually joined his unusual household? In this sparkling new biography, which draws on material not previously published, Colin Duriez brings C.S. Lewis and his friendships to life.

Routledge Library Editions: Virginia Woolf (Hardcover): Various Authors Routledge Library Editions: Virginia Woolf (Hardcover)
Various Authors
R12,978 R10,506 Discovery Miles 105 060 Save R2,472 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1963 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics on Virginia Woolf, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes include literary criticism on Virginia Woolf's novels, poetry, plays and essays, through the lens of linguistics, narrative theory, psychoanalysis and textual analysis, whilst also exploring the literary modernist movement. This set will be of particular interest to students of literature, history and linguistics respectively.

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (Paperback): Martin Edwards The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (Paperback)
Martin Edwards 1
R463 R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is breathtaking, and so much greater than many critics have suggested. To illustrate this, the leading expert on classic crime discusses one hundred books ranging from The Hound of the Baskervilles to Strangers on a Train which highlight the entertaining plots, the literary achievements, and the social significance of vintage crime fiction. This book serves as a companion to the acclaimed British Library Crime Classics series but it tells a very diverse story. It presents the development of crime fiction - from Sherlock Holmes to the end of the golden age - in an accessible, informative and engaging style.

Beckett the Playwright (Paperback): John Fletcher, John Spurling Beckett the Playwright (Paperback)
John Fletcher, John Spurling
R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book, first published in 1985, stresses Beckett's success as an innovator in the theatre through a close reading and analysis of his plays. The differing backgrounds of the two authors enables them to approach Beckett's drama in a particularly fruitful way: 'Their analysis is clever yet level-headed, readable but does not shirk complexities.' (Times Educational Supplement). 'Brilliant collection of essays on Beckett and his works.' (Irish Times)

Surreal Entanglements - Essays on Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction (Paperback): Louise Economides, Laura Shackelford Surreal Entanglements - Essays on Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction (Paperback)
Louise Economides, Laura Shackelford
R1,164 Discovery Miles 11 640 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer's work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer's work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which "nature" has become radically uncanny due to global climate change and powerful bio-technologies. The first collection to survey academic engagements with VanderMeer, this book brings together scholars in the fields of environmental literature, science fiction, genre studies, American literary history, philosophy of technology, and digital cultures to reflect on the environmentally, culturally, aesthetically, and politically central questions his fiction poses to predominant understandings of the Anthropocene.

Wilde's Other Worlds (Hardcover): Michael F. Davis, Petra Dierkes-Thrun Wilde's Other Worlds (Hardcover)
Michael F. Davis, Petra Dierkes-Thrun
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Taking its cue from Baudelaire's important essay "The Painter of Modern Life," in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a "man of the world," this collection of essays presents Oscar Wilde as a "man of the world" who eschewed provincial concerns, cultural conventions, and narrow national interests in favor of the wider world and other worlds-both real and imaginary, geographical and historical, physical and intellectual-which provided alternative sites for exploration and experience, often including alternative gender expression or sexual alterity. Wilde had an unlimited curiosity and a cosmopolitan spirit of inquiry that traveled widely across borders, ranging freely over space and time. He entered easily and wholly into other countries, other cultures, other national literatures, other periods, other mythologies, other religions, other disciplines, and other modes of representation, and was able to fully inhabit and navigate them, quickly apprehending the conventions by which they operate. The fourteen essays in this volume offer fresh critical-theoretical and historical perspectives not just on key connections and aspects of Wilde's oeuvre itself, but on the development of Wilde's remarkable worldliness in dialogue with many other worlds: contemporary developments in art, science and culture, as well as with other national literatures and cultures. Perhaps as a direct result of this cosmopolitan spirit, Wilde and Wilde's works have been taken up across the globe, as the essays on Wilde's reception in India, Japan and Hollywood illustrate. Many of the essays gathered here are based on groundbreaking archival research, including some never-seen-before illustrations. Together, they have the potential to open up important new comparative, transnational, and historical perspectives on Wilde that can shape and sharpen our future understanding of his work and impact.

The Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story (Paperback): Maria Loeschnigg The Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story (Paperback)
Maria Loeschnigg
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume aims to introduce undergraduates, graduates, and general readers to the diversity and richness of Canadian short story writing and to the narrative potential of short fiction in general. Addressing a wide spectrum of forms and themes, the book will familiarise readers with the development and cultural significance of Canadian short fiction from the early 19th century to the present. A strong focus will be on the rich reservoir of short fiction produced in the past four decades and the way in which it has responded to the anxieties and crises of our time. Drawing on current critical debates, each chapter will highlight the interrelations between Canadian short fiction and historical and socio-cultural developments. Case studies will zoom in on specific thematic or aesthetic issues in an exemplary manner. The Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story will provide an accessible and comprehensive overview ideal for students and general readers interested in the multifaceted and thriving medium of the short story in Canada.

Van Jagter Tot Wildliefhebber (Afrikaans, Paperback): P.J. Schoeman Van Jagter Tot Wildliefhebber (Afrikaans, Paperback)
P.J. Schoeman
R58 Discovery Miles 580 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Jag is ’n avontuur wat jou wegvoer van vier mure na die oop ruimtes van groot Afrika en jou laat kennis maak met ontbering en volharding, met lekker spog en lekker eet. En die oog, die kamera en die sakboekie vervang nie in een dag die jagroer nie. P.J. Schoeman se naam was vir geslagte Afrikaanslesers sinoniem met verhale waarin natuurkennis en natuurgevoeligheid saampraat. Vir diegene wat as jong lesers met Schoeman kennis gemaak het, sal die lees van hierdie hersiene heruitgawe ’n nostalgiese ervaring wees – ’n erfenis om aan vandag se jong lesers oor te dra.

Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France (Paperback): Ann T. Delehanty Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France (Paperback)
Ann T. Delehanty
R1,121 Discovery Miles 11 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France: Cervantes's Don Quijote, Zayas's Desenganos amorosos, Scarron's Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac's L'Autre Monde, and Mme. de Lafayette's Zayde. This book enables upper level students and scholars to see how the authors use the developing form of the novel to engage in skeptical inquiry. This book allows students and scholars of early modern literature, history and philosophy to see how the novel can shed new light on the period by exploring how literature becomes a means to express these differences and put them in productive dialogue. By identifying the philosophic stakes of these literary works, this book shows students and scholars how these novels are part of the larger skeptical turn of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century in Europe enabling them to see the importance of studying literature alongside history and philosophy.

The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era - Presenting the Past (Hardcover): Susan Brantly The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era - Presenting the Past (Hardcover)
Susan Brantly
R4,197 Discovery Miles 41 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author's nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are postmodern. The historical novel as a genre occupies a problematic, yet significant space in Cold War literary currents, torn between claims of authenticity and the impossibility of accessing the past. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process. This pitting of a center against a periphery serves to highlight traits that historical novels from the West have in common, but also how they differ. The historical novel is not just a local, regional phenomenon, but has become, during the postmodern era, a transnational tool for exploring how we should think of nations and nationalism and what a society should, or should not, look like.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant (Hardcover): Joanne Shattock, Elisabeth Jay The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant (Hardcover)
Joanne Shattock, Elisabeth Jay
R99,783 Discovery Miles 997 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.

Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930 - Modernity, Regionality, Mobility (Hardcover): Alison Martin, Lut Missinne,... Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930 - Modernity, Regionality, Mobility (Hardcover)
Alison Martin, Lut Missinne, Beatrix van Dam
R4,497 Discovery Miles 44 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now Germany and Austria, the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the Dutch East Indies and Suriname, the contributors highlight the interrelations between the regional and the global and the role alterity plays in both spheres. They therefore offer a transnational and transcultural perspective on the ways in which the foreign was mediated to audiences back home. By combining a narrative perspective on travel writing with a socio-historically contextualized approach, essays emphasize the importance of textuality in travel literature as well as the self-positioning of such accounts in their individual historical and political environments. The first sustained analysis to focus specifically on these neighboring cultural and linguistic areas, this collection demonstrates how topographies of knowledge were forged across these regions by an astonishingly diverse range of travelling individuals from professional scholars and writers to art dealers, soldiers, (female) explorers, and scientific collectors. The contributors address cultural, aesthetic, political, and gendered aspects of travel writing, drawing productively on other disciplines and areas of scholarly research that encompass German Studies, Low Countries Studies, comparative literature, aesthetics, the history of science, literary geography, and the history of publishing.

A History of Russian Literature - Comprising 'A History of Russian Literature' and 'Contemporary Russian... A History of Russian Literature - Comprising 'A History of Russian Literature' and 'Contemporary Russian Literature' (Paperback)
D.S. Mirsky; Edited by Francis J. Whitfield
R1,319 Discovery Miles 13 190 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book, first published in 1949, is an abridged version of Mirsky's classic two texts on Russian literature, updated with a postscript by the editor assessing the development of Soviet literature. Beautifully written, Mirsky's analyses of Russian writers and literature go hand in hand with his takes on Russian history. From the birth of Russian literature to its Soviet form, this book is a lively and comprehensive examination by one of its leading scholars.

Catastrophe and Imagination - English and American Writings from 1870 to 1950 (Paperback): John McCormick Catastrophe and Imagination - English and American Writings from 1870 to 1950 (Paperback)
John McCormick
R1,371 Discovery Miles 13 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since World War II critics have been predicting the decline of the novel. This book argues that the novel is not dead. Looking at American and English fiction it claims that the novel can not only change the possibilities of art, but also contribute to awareness of life's possibilities.

The Connell Guide To Charles Dickens's Hard Times (Paperback): Uttara Natarajan The Connell Guide To Charles Dickens's Hard Times (Paperback)
Uttara Natarajan
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel. Some early critics argued that it lacked the genius of the characterisation and humour that mark his greatest works. One of the 20th century's leading critics, F.R. Leavis, believes, on the contrary, that Hard Times is Dickens's sole contribution to the great tradition of the English novel, displaying a moral seriousness lacking elsewhere in his more entertaining work: "It has a kind of perfection as a work of art that we don't associate with Dickens - a perfection that is one with the sustained and complete seriousness for which among his productions it is unique." Nowadays, if not Dickens's most readable book, it is certainly one of his most read. So was Leavis right? In this guide, one of Britain's leading experts on Dickens, Uttara Natarajan, looks at the success of Hard Times, at why it was so much admired by the likes of John Ruskin and George Bernard Shaw, and at what Dickens was trying to do in this compelling and often shocking novel. A testament of his success, as Natarajan says, is the way in which the name of its principal character - Gradgrind - has long been absorbed into the English vocabulary, and continues regularly to be invoked as shorthand for a rigid adherence to fact.

Modern Languages Study Guides: No et moi - Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level French (Paperback): Karine Harrington Modern Languages Study Guides: No et moi - Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level French (Paperback)
Karine Harrington
R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas & CCEA Level: AS/A-level Subject: Modern Languages First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2017 Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialist terminology. Breaking down each scene, character and theme in No et moi (No and Me), this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay. - Strengthen language skills with relevant grammar, vocab and writing exercises throughout - Aim for top marks by building a bank of textual examples and quotes to enhance exam response - Build confidence with knowledge-check questions at the end of every chapter - Revise effectively with pages of essential vocabulary and key mind maps throughout - Feel prepared for exams with advice on how to write an essay, plus sample essay questions, two levels of model answers and examiner commentary

Emily and Anne Bronte (Paperback): W.H. Stevenson Emily and Anne Bronte (Paperback)
W.H. Stevenson
R1,164 Discovery Miles 11 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the claustrophobic environment of Haworth Parsonage emerged an astonishing range and diversity of character and talent. Between them the two youngest Bronte sisters wrote three novels, each sharply individual in style, purpose and subject-matter. The title, first published in 1968, discusses and illustrates the similarities and differences in the writings of Emily and Anne Bronte, paying particular attention to their place in the development of the Victorian novel. He stresses the complexities of structure and characterisation in Wuthering Heights, introducing the reader first to the background of the novel. This book will be of interest to students of English Literature.

Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction (Hardcover): Marie Mianowski Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction (Hardcover)
Marie Mianowski
R4,197 Discovery Miles 41 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction discusses the representations of place and landscape in Irish fiction since 2008. It includes novels and short stories by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger, Anne Enright, Donal Ryan, Claire Kilroy, Kevin Barry, Gerard Donovan, Danielle McLaughlin, Trisha McKinney, Billy O'Callaghan and Colum McCann. In the light of writings by geographers, anthropologists and philosophers such as Doreen Massey, Tim Ingold, Giorgio Agamben and Jeff Malpas, this book looks at the metamorphoses of place and landscape representations in fiction by confirmed or debut authors, in the aftermath of a crisis with deep economic as well as cultural consequences for Irish society. It shows what place and landscape representations reveal of the past, while discussing the way notions such as boundedness, openness and emergence can contribute to thinking out space and place and designing future landscapes.

The Magic of MinaLima (Hardcover): Minalima, Nell Denton The Magic of MinaLima (Hardcover)
Minalima, Nell Denton
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A full-colour illustrated compendium chronicling the magical twenty-year journey of acclaimed art and design studio, MinaLima, the creative genius behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film series. "It all started with a letter . . ." Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima began their extraordinary partnership in 2001 when Warner Bros. invited them to realize the imaginative visual universe of the Harry Potter film series. The two artists would never have guessed that the graphic props they designed for the films - including the Hogwarts acceptance letter, Marauder's Map, Daily Prophet newspaper, The Quibbler and Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes - would become cultural icons loved by Wizarding World fans around the world. Eight years later, the pair formed their own design studio, MinaLima, and expanded their work to include the graphics for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade at Universal Orlando Resort and the Fantastic Beasts film series. To showcase their treasury of designs, the studio has opened House of MinaLima, its immersive art galleries and shops in London and across the world. The Magic of MinaLima is an illustrated history and celebration of Mina and Lima's twenty-year evolution and groundbreaking vision. Their wondrous creations illuminate the Wizarding World as never before, and their commentary offers insights into the imaginative thinking that shaped their designs. This collection showcases the very best works from the award-winning studio's two decades and includes interactive elements such as the Marauder's Map, the Black Family Tapestry, and Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. Designed to delight and enchant, The Magic of MinaLima will be an invaluable resource for Wizarding World and graphic art fans alike.

The Strange Case of R L Stevenson (Hardcover): Richard Woodhead The Strange Case of R L Stevenson (Hardcover)
Richard Woodhead
R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A consultant physician for 22 years with a strong interest in Robert Louis Stevenson's life and work, Richard Woodhead was intrigued by the questions raised by the references to his symptoms. The assumption that he suffered from consumption - the diagnosis of the day - is challenged here. Consumption (tuberculosis), a scourge of nineteenth century society, it was regarded as severely debilitating if not a death sentence. Dr Woodhead examines how Stevenson's life was affected by his illness and his perception of it. This fictional work puts words into the mouths of five doctors who treated RLS at different periods of his adult life. Though these doctors existed in real-life, little is documented of their private conversations with RLS. However everything Dr Woodhead postulates could have occurred within the known framework of RLS's life. Detailed use of Stevenson's own writing adds authenticity to the views espoused in the book. RLS's writing continues to compel readers today. The fact that he did much of his writing while confined to his sick-bed is fascinating. What illness could have contributed to his creativity?

Letters from England - by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella (Hardcover): Carol Bolton Letters from England - by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella (Hardcover)
Carol Bolton
R5,129 Discovery Miles 51 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1807 Robert Southey published a pseudonymous account of a journey made through England by a fictitious Spanish tourist, 'Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella'. Letters from England (1807) relates Espriella's travels. On his journey Espriella comments on every aspect of British society, from fashions and manners, to political and religious beliefs.

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