'Frail Warrior': Stevenson as Manly Invalid at Saranac Lake.
Although "frail warrior" appears a contradiction in terms, the epithet captures how Robert Louis Stevenson's admirers sought to reconcile a late-nineteenth-century ideal of physical manliness with the reality of the adventure writer's debilitating illness. This construction of the writer's public im...
| Published in: | Humanities (2076-0787) Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 93 - 104 |
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