Robert Louis Stevenson and the ‘Optic Nerve’. Portraiture in Weir of Hermiston
This paper focuses on Stevenson’s last and unfinished novel, according to James ‘a splendid and tragic fragment’. Not much has been written so far about the marked visuality in the opening chapters and the influence of the Scottish painter Raeburn on Stevenson’s writing. I shall try to demonstrate t...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2006-12-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/12493 |