ISBN : 9782296136298
OF DOUBLES AND DUPLICITY: FOLLOWERS AFTER ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IN AMERICA
Stevenson's followers in America have been numerous. Katharine Osbourne, Clayton Hamilton, J. C. Furnas, Roy Nickerson, Michel Le Bris, Nicholas Rankin, Gavin Bell, Hunter Davies, and John Cairney, have successively embarked on an a round of attempts to visit the American locations in which Stevenson spent any time,1 rediscovering the landscapes he described and establishing vicarious contact with the people he encountered. Just as Stevenson came to America knowing that he would make a book out of the trip so his followers come, pen and notebook in hand, bent on finding interesting copy. They express nostalgia for the America that Stevenson knew, seek out and document significant contrasts between the America Stevenson discovered and the United States of today. They worm out any possible overlooked influences exerted during the periods Stevenson spent in America and discernable in his later work...