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Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s investigates Stevenson and the geographies of his literary networks during the last years of his life and after his death. It profiles a series of figures who worked with Stevenson, negotiated his publications on both sides of the Atlantic, wrote for him or were inspired by him. Using archival material, correspondence, fiction and biographies it moves across these literary networks. It deploys the concept of ‘literary prosthetics’ to frame its analysis of gatekeepers, tastemakers, agents, collaborators and authorial surrogates in the transatlantic production of Stevenson’s writing. Case studies of understudied individuals and broader consideration of the networks they represent contribute to knowledge of transatlantic publishing in the 1890s, understanding of transatlantic culture, Stevenson studies, current interest in the workings of literary communities and in nineteenth-century mobility.
‘A groundbreaking account of transatlantic publishing and reputation in the 1890s focusing on the uniquely talented, uniquely peripatetic property known as Robert Louis Stevenson, enmeshed in a network of agents, mentors, friends, fans and gatekeepers. Norquay’s invaluable study explores the “incorporation” of the modern author under new concepts of authorship, ownership and commercial competition.’
—Roderick Watson, Professor Emeritus, University of Stirling, UK
Glenda Norquay is chair in Scottish Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and head of its Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History. With interests in Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish literature more generally, women’s fiction and literary reception/production, she is the author of Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading (2007); editor of the Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women’s Writing (2012); and co-editor of a volume on archipelagic cultural politics, Across the Margins (2002). Norquay has also written extensively on Scottish women’s fiction and on the politics of suffrage literature.
Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Lemuel Bangs: ‘The Senator’; 2. A Tale of Two Texts; 3. ‘A Gentleman Called Charles Baxter’; 4. Sidney Colvin: Custodian and Monument; 5. Family, Friends and Collaborators; 6. Arthur Quiller- Couch: The Quivering Needle; 7. Richard Le Gallienne: ‘Not While a Boy Still Whistles’; Conclusion: Robert Louis Stevenson Incorporated; References; Index.