Anthropology 2201F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Squire Trelawney, Robert Louis Stevenson, Israel Hands
19 Jul 2015
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Child-adult relations are a key issue in children"s literature, where parents are often either absent or oppressive. This pattern continues in treasure island; just as alice escapes into a world of nonsense, jim hawkins constantly runs away from adult authority to have adventures on his own. Most of the novels in the adventure category are directed at male readers and focus on male protagonists; conversely, the novels featured in the domestic novel category tend to be directed at girls. Treasure island is a deliberate attempt to fit into an existing genre in many editions, the novel opens with a poem addressed to the hesitating purchaser in which. Stevenson promises to give his readers all the old romance, retold / exactly in the ancient way. he is promising to follow a well-known formula, derived from authors like fenimore cooper (last of the mohicans).
