Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad.

Dryden, Linda

Abstract

This paper offers a comparative study of some of the colonial fictions of Stevenson and Conrad. It takes a postcolonial position, arguing that both Stevenson and Conrad were moving in the direction of literary modernism as they wrote fictions that attempted to challenge the traditional British approach to the experience of Europeans in the Far East.

Citation

Dryden, L. (2011). Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. In M. Gardiner, G. Macdonald, & N. O'Gallagher (Eds.), Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives (86-97). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0006

• Publication Date: 2011
• Deposit Date: May 18, 2012
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 86-97
• Book Title: Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives
• ISBN: 9780748637744
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0006
• Keywords: Stevenson; Conrad; Postcolonial Literature; Modernism
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5284
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0006