ENGL-3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Barbecue, Anal Retentiveness, Robert Louis Stevenson
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Scotland, a generation older than louis carroll. Lived in the united states for a while. Children"s adventures books genre: profitable genre, magazine young folks. Exciting opportunity to see the world by stealing a part of it from someone else. Stevenson wants to reverse the order between literature and illustration. Treasure island is located in somewhere caribbean: mostly unreal deliberately, oak and pine trees, don"t really make sense in that context. Significance of the map as a literary trope. What does it matter to the characters. Map = empty promise, but drives the pint. Documents = true records from an original. Cant rely on physical strength, mostly philosophical. Boys novel, any chance of romance = get in the way. Not in the most historically accurate to have women. Symbolic to be a young boy without parental guidance. Quite recently girls and boys are marketed differently to different books. Seems to us is realistic but challenging.
