Prince Otto - Rilegato

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0748645233 ISBN 13: 9780748645237

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

A playful, self-reflexive tale of politics and ethics. In Prince Otto, first published in serial form in 1885, Stevenson uses his genius for adventure and romance to explore some decidedly grown-up themes. The tiny German state of Grünewald seems to be a principality of the world of fairy-tale. But its ruler is beset in public by the forces of modern politics, and troubled in private by an unhappy marriage. Ill-prepared to deal with either, Otto is forced to choose between them.
Key Features:
* This first fully edited edition of the novel will provoke readers to think again about the scope and purpose of Stevenson's brilliant story-telling
* Explores the most modern of themes, the moral compromises required by marriage: a romance in which the marriage of the hero and the heroine is not the happy conclusion of the plot, but the problem that the plot has to resolve
* A fascinating text for what it tells us about Stevenson's goals and aspirations at this crucial stage of his career, and about the changing nature of the novel in English at the end of the nineteenth-century

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Informazioni sugli autori

Robert P. Irvine is Reader in the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the editor of the scholarly edition of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (2020) and John Galt, Annals of the Parish (EUP, 2020).

Robert P. Irvine is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

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Prince OttoEdited by Robert P. IrvineA playful, self-reflexive tale of politics and ethics. In Prince Otto, first published in serial form in 1885, Stevenson uses his genius for adventure and romance to explore some decidedly grown-up themes. The tiny German state of Grünewald seems to be a principality of the world of fairy-tale. But its ruler is beset in public by the forces of modern politics, and troubled in private by an unhappy marriage. Ill-prepared to deal with either, Otto is forced to choose between them.Key Features:* This first fully edited edition of the novel will provoke readers to think again about the scope and purpose of Stevenson's brilliant story-telling* Explores the most modern of themes, the moral compromises required by marriage: a romance in which the marriage of the hero and the heroine is not the happy conclusion of the plot, but the problem that the plot has to resolve* A fascinating text for what it tells us about Stevenson's goals and aspirations at this crucial stage of his career, and about the changing nature of the novel in English at the end of the nineteenth-centuryRobert P. Irvine is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has edited Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice for Broadview Press and The Edinburgh Anthology of Scottish Literature in 2 volumes for Kennedy and Boyd. He is the author of Jane Austen (Routledge, 2005) and Enlightenment and Romance: Gender and Agency in Smollett and Scott (Peter Lang, 2000).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0748645233
• ISBN 13: 9780748645237
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 213
• Redattore: Irvine Robert
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile