Robert Louis Stevenson and the art of telling: British society and culture in the late 19th century

• Grant number: 15/24780-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: April 01, 2016
• End date: March 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Maria Stella Martins Bresciani
• Grantee: Ana Carolina Silva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/17055-3 - Robert Louis Stevenson and the art of telling: British Culture and Society in the late 19th century, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The emergence of developed urban areas and the technological breakthroughs have generated an intense modification of the social, political, cultural and economic structures, originating new forms of experimentation, which changed the way human beings socialized and related to space. Therefore, the aim of the present project is apprehend and analyze Robert Louis Stevenson's literary procedures and investigate trough two of his novels - The Suicide Club (1882), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and also some of his essays - the representation of the British society and the reverberation and dialogue established by those discursive means within the context of the late 19th century. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SILVA, Ana Carolina. Robert Louis Stevenson and the art of telling: british society and culture in the late 19th century. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.