‘Frail Warrior’: Stevenson as Manly Invalid at Saranac Lake
Although “frail warrior” appears a contradiction in terms, the epithet captures how Robert Louis Stevenson’s admirers sought to reconcile a late-nineteenth-century ideal of physical manliness with the reality of the adventure writer’s debilitating illness. This construction of the writer’s public im...
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MDPI AG
2024-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/13/4/93 |