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Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad: Writers of Transition
No full textThis edited book is the first complete book-length study to consider the work of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad within the same framework. It contains essays from internationally renowned scholars of both authors and seeks to reposition Stevenson as an author whose work should be considered alongside that of Conrad and as an author whose influence is more significant than has previously been acknowledged
It looks like a lamplit vicious fairy land behind me: Robert Louis Stevenson and Scotland
Get PDFThis thesis concerns a man and his home country, exploring the physical, the emotional and the imaginative bonding of the two. The man is Robert Louis Stevenson. A frail, consumptive novelist, poet and Scot, who transcended his infirmities to create romantic heroes of magnificent adventures, and transcended his self-imposed exile by setting them amidst the heather. The country is Scotland, a country which nurtured and debilitated, inspired and repelled Stevenson. It was also one in which he was ultimately unable to survive. Stevenson was not solely a Scottish writer, just as he is not solely a children's writer. His work does reflect his peripatetic life, but the purpose of this thesis is to focus upon his Scottish fiction. It will argue that it was in these works that his imagination and his artistic skills fused best. Scotland’s influence upon Stevenson will be seen as twofold. Firstly, the geographical and historical impressions which were made upon him, and secondly, the traditions of superstion which so characterised its people. A study of Stevenson's non-fictional portrait of Edinburgh will be made to elucidate his continued impulse to write about Scotland and what it meant to be Scottish. Stevenson’s Scottish fiction will be shown as far more than the laments of a homesick ex-pat. In recognising the viciousness of his fairyland, perceiving the skull beneath the skin, Stevenson gave to his fiction and his Scotland a richness and vitality which might not have been possible had he been a comfortable resident of a comfortable Edinburgh house
Jandl-Stevenson Collection
No full textH. Ward Jandl and Katherine C. Stevenson were both architectural historians who collaborated to compile research data involving the Sears, Roebuck and Company mail-order house designs prevalent in the first half of the twentieth century. The collections include correspondence, research notes, photographs, and negatives relating to the research and production of their book Houses by Mail (Preservation Press, 1986), which serves as a guide to the homes manufactured and sold by Sears, Roebuck and Company from 1908 to 1940. The designs and materials for approximately 450 houses were featured in the company's mail-order catalogs, which the authors bring to light in their informative book
Tanis Stevenson
No full textPhotograph shows Tanis Stevenson wearing a hat and black string tie.Inscription on lower margin: ''Tanis Stevenson, lord of the San Antonio Gypsies / deputy sheriff under Sheriff [Owen] Kilday'
Mr Keith Stevenson, 1973
No full textRetirement dinner for Keith Stevenson, retiring after 37 years of service, held in the cafeteria of the Ethel Swinburne Centre. Seated left to right: Keith Stevenson, Head of Civil Engineering and Mrs Stevenson; Standing to her right: Dr Roy Longworth, Director. Refer to the 'Swinburne Newsletter', 1st February 1973
[Letter to J. J. Barnes from M. W. Stevenson #1]
No full textCarbon copy of a letter from M. W. Stevenson, Deputy Chief of Police, to J. J. Barnes, the Chief of Police of Douglas, Georgia. The letter is responding to an inquiry by J. J. Barnes. Barnes asked whether Ingram G. Oswald could be related to Lee Harvey Oswald. The Deputy Chief of Police responds that to his knowledge there is no relation
[Letter from M. W. Stevenson to J. J. Barnes, December 6, 1963, #2]
No full textTwo copies of a letter from M. W. Stevenson responding to Chief of Police in Douglas, Georgia J. J. Barnes. Stevenson states that no information implying relation between Ingram G. Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald had been uncovered
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