Scottish Studies Zoom Talk
Robert Louis Stevenson an online talk by Dr. Kate Ashley
Saturday, February 11, 2023
On February 11, fellow board member, Dr. Kate Ashley (Acadia University), will be giving a talk based on her latest book: Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Literary Relations at the Fin de Siècle (EUP, 2022). The presentation will examine French literature from Stevenson's perspective and Stevenson from a French perspective, and will do so within the context of debates surrounding the development of the novel at the fin de siècle. It will consider Stevenson as both a reader and a writer of French in order to show how French literature contributes to his theory and practice of fiction. It will also consider how nineteenth-century French writers and critics approached Stevenson, in order to clarify how, where, and why his earliest French readers translated, disseminated and interpreted his books. In this way, we will see how debates taking place in France not only contributed to the evolution of Stevenson's art, but also how Stevenson became a model of artistic innovation in France.
Dr. Ashley teaches French, English and Translation at Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada). Her research deals with nineteenth-century French literary history and Franco-British literary relations, and she has also published on Scottish literature in translation. She is the author of Edmond de Goncourt and the Novel (Rodopi, 2005), editor of Prix Goncourt, 1903-2003: essais critiques (Peter Lang, 2004), and co-editor of Carver Across the Curriculum (Cambridge Scholars, 2011).
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