Scottish Studies Zoom Talk

Robert Louis Stevenson
and
Nineteenth-Century French Literature

an online talk by Dr. Kate Ashley

Saturday, February 11, 2023
11 a.m. EST (Eastern Canada/USA)
4 p.m. UK

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).

To register for this event, kindly contact David Hunter by email at davidhunter@scottishstudies.com. You will then be sent the appropriate Zoom login information. Please register no later than Friday, February 10th. This is a free event, but you are welcome to make a donation to our Scholarship Campaign.

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