Robert Louis Stevenson. Life, Writing and Adventure Fiction

Document from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: From ‘South Seas’ Fictions to Pacific Island Writing, language: English, abstract: This essay serves as an in-depth analysis and elaboration of the topics dealt with in the presentation held in the seminar titled “From South Seas Fiction to Pacific Island writing” about Robert Louis Stevenson. Thus, it follows that this work is concerned with the life of RLS, but also with his literary work and how the former has influenced the latter. Moreover, Treasure Island will be explored and contextualized against the backdrop of the genre Adventure Fiction. For said purpose it is necessary to briefly define the most common aspects of the genre at hand. These common aspects will be explored and RLS’s literary works in the genre and his personal approach shall be outlined later on.