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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/839| Appears in Collections: | Literature and Languages Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | "The unrest and movement of our century": the universe of The Wrecker |
| Author(s): | Watson, Roderick |
| Contact Email: | r.b.watson@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | R. L. Stevenson The Wrecker modernity a black comedy of capitalism and existential absurdity absent fathers, discarded sons art, travel, business innocence and murder a comedy of reversals Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-1894. English literature 19th century History and criticism Osbourne, Lloyd, 1868-1947 Black humor Ethics Modern 20th century. Civilization, Modern 20th century postmodernism (literature) |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Date Deposited: | 23-Feb-2009 |
| Citation: | Watson R (2007) "The unrest and movement of our century": the universe of The Wrecker. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 4, pp. 114-128. http://www.english.stir.ac.uk/research/profile/stevensonstudies.php |
| Abstract: | Stevenson's novel The Wrecker is a prophetically postmodern vision of a depthless world of travel, exile, novelty and rootlessness, of 'discarded sons' whose corruption, in a world they neither understand nor fully belong to, is curiously innocent. |
| URL: | http://www.english.stir.ac.uk/research/profile/stevensonstudies.php |
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