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EMPIRE EXILE AND THE EXOTIC - JÜRGEN KRAMER KAR...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad are two very differentwriters. Stevenson found an
ever-increasing audience with his poetryand early travelogues  as well as Treasure Island  The
Strange Case of DrJekyll and Mr Hyde and his Scottish romances. Conrad first led a lifeat sea
and began his writing career with tales and novels set in the FarEast  Africa  South America
and later  in Europe. But these two writersalso had a lot in common. Their experiences with the
British empire exile and the exotic differed  but their assessments of these
experiencesdemonstrate an astonishing amount of convergence.This collection of essays is the
result of a long-term research interestwhich aimed at bringing these two authors more closely
together inliterary and cultural criticism. In these texts  most of which were
separatelypublished over the past two decades  Stevenson and Conrad'ssubstantial criticisms of
colonial relations are contrasted with theirloves for the sea  its attractions and challenges.
The volume also includesessays on the sea as a cultural space and is rounded off by areading of
Bram Stoker's Dracula  which synthesises topics dealt withearlier concerning the Victorian fin
de siècle.

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