The Proper Pirate - Jefferson A. Singer

The Proper Pirate

Robert Louis Stevenson's Quest for Identity
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2016
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-932854-3 (ISBN)
46,75 inkl. MwSt
This first full-length psychobiographical analysis of Robert Louis Stevenson examines his life story, providing new insights into how his most significant memories and personal conflicts shaped the narrative structure and themes of some of his most celebrated works, including: Treasure Island; A Child's Garden of Verses; (The) Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; and Kidnapped.
Exploring the life and times of author Robert Louis Stevenson, The Proper Pirate takes readers on a psychological journey from the writer's clerical and constricted upbringing to a life of imagination and wonder culminating in the South Seas island of Samoa. Drawing on contemporary theories of identity development, Jefferson A. Singer traces how Stevenson overcame Victorian dualities of piety versus passion in both his personal life and artistic works, gradually edging toward a more Modernist and complicated moral vision.

This first full-length psychobiographical study of Stevenson follows the trajectory of his life, all while highlighting how key memories and conflicts within his personality shaped the narrative structure and themes of some of his most celebrated works, including: Treasure Island, (The) Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses, and Kidnapped. Stevenson's relationships to his parents, his wife Fanny, and circle of intimate friends also play a prominent role in this investigation of his emerging identity and artistic body of work.

Drawing on Stevenson's own treasure trove of personal correspondence, memoirs, essays, novels, stories and poems, as well as historical documents, biographies, and critical studies, Singer utilizes his background as a clinical psychologist and researcher in personality science to provide new and informative insights into the great writer's psychological development. In doing so, he helps to unlock the mystery of how a sickly youth confined to the "land of the counterpane" grew up to become the author of some of the world's most beloved and enduring works of adventure and fantasy.

Jefferson A. Singer is the Dean of the College and Faulk Foundation Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College. He is the author of 5 books and many articles, chapters, and reviews in the fields of personality, memory, and clinical psychology. Singer was the recipient of the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, and a Social Science Research Council Award, both for research on autobiographical memory conducted in the United Kingdom. He was the 2010 recipient of the Henry Murray Award for the Study of Narrative Lives from Division 8 (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.

Chapter 1 - Jehovah Tsidkenu

Chapter 2 - Trapped in the House of Eld

Chapter 3 - The Bohemian Finds a Wife and Purpose

Chapter 4 - Disobedience Dreamed by a Loyal Son

Chapter 5 - Et Ego in Arcadia Vixi

Chapter 6 - The Gothic Gnome and the Worm of Conscience

Chapt. 7 - The Generative Turn: The Deepening of Stevenson's Societal Identity

Chapter 8 - My Heart Sings - First Travels in the South Seas

Chapter 9 - The Good Work Done

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 239 x 157 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 0-19-932854-4 / 0199328544
ISBN-13 978-0-19-932854-3 / 9780199328543
Zustand Neuware
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