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Richard Dury, Honorary Professorial Fellow of University of Edinburgh, taught history of the English Language at Bergamo University. He retired in order to dedicate himself to the New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Thirty years ago, Robert Louis Stevenson was effectively excluded from the literary canon: not mentioned in standard anthologies, most of his works out of print, and books and articles on him a rarity: the RLS Website has five titles of studies for the 1950s, eight for the 1960s, twelve for the 1970s. The situation has […]
In a perceptive essay published in 1911 Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) refers to the changes in tense in Stevenson: they are, she says, ‘dimensional movements in time, and their variety and intricacy enlarges it, as variety and movement in space enables us to feel an object as cubic’.1 This interesting observation captures an important aspect […]