“THE WORST DREAMS THAT EVER I HAVE”: CAPITALISM AND THE ROMANCE IN R. L. STEVENSON'S TREASURE ISLAND.
While in recent years there has been a slow accumulation of research exploring the links between Robert Louis Stevenson's work and capitalism, there remains a sense that this is still only an interesting byway when reading him, rather than a central route. Partly, this can be explained by this resea...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Literature & Culture Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 907 - 924 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2016
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