Dr Craig Lamont looks at how Robert Louis Stevenson & his literary creations have been – & continue to be – remembered & memorialised, in Scotland & around the world
“They were both experienced in such affairs, and powerful with the spade; and they had scarce been twenty minutes at their task before they were rewarded by a dull rattle on the coffin lid.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body-Snatcher”, read by Sir Christopher Lee
Ruth Richardson writes in The Lancet on how Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body-Snatcher” shows the author’s
“acute analysis of degrees of guilt; the complicit socialisation of maleness; the hypocrisies which so often lie behind worldly success; the damage behind apparent failure; the dark silences that can exist in social relations that pass as bonhomie”
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“I was looked upon with contempt, like a man who should project a journey to the moon, but yet with a respectful interest, like one setting forth for the inclement Pole.”
Gothic Warnings: Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray, Dracula, & the Anthropocene
29 Nov, University of Aberdeen, & online. Free
Dr Emily Alder reconsiders these famous #Gothic works in light of the #Anthropocene, a concept used to describe the impact of human activities on Earth systems & in which the #Victorian period is deeply implicated
More Books About Buildings & Crime
14 Nov, Scottish Parliament, #Edinburgh – free & all welcome
Maps, floor-plans & architectural features matter in #CrimeFiction, & writers have often exploited the symbolic & structural significance of buildings as framing devices.
Author Liam McIlvanney looks at important buildings in the #Scottish crime canon, in works from #RobertLouisStevenson to Abir Mukherjee.
“What I know is this: if there is sich a thing as a Author, I’m his favourite chara’ter. He does me fathoms better’n he does you—fathoms, he does.”
—Long John Silver & Captain Smollett slip out between chapters of #TreasureIsland for a chat & a fly smoke in “The Persons of the Tale” – the first of #RobertLouisStevenson’s twenty FABLES, available as a free ebook from our website
Can't stop the #BookWeek at https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy
Tonight Sam's back with some Year One favourites! We've got Dickens, Stevenson, Middleton, Nesbitt, and maybe more if there's time? Come and find a new story to love! @bookstodon