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Title: | Masters of the Hovering Life: 'Robert Musil and R. L.Stevenson' | Contributor(s): | Sandison, Alan George (author) | Publication Date: | 2006 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5367 | Abstract: | To justify mentioning in the same breath Robert Musil-the Robert Musil of The Man Without Qualities, that is-and Robert Louis Stevenson might seem, on the face of it, to require some ingenious argument. On reflection, though, we may be just a little too ready to apologize for juxtaposing Stevenson with a writer of such high cultural seriousness as Musil. Might it not, perhaps, signal a failure in comprehension on our part? Superficially, there would appear to be some mildly interesting, if rather adventitious, affinities between the two. Both were the sons of engineers, both gave themselves-for varying periods but with almost equal distasteto the study of engineering, both proved themselves inventive: Stevenson with his paper "On a New Form of Intermittent Light in Lighthouses" for which he got a medal; Musil with his invention (and patenting) of a chromatometer, which was still in use in the 1930S. Both were determined to be writers. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries, p. 315-326 | Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press | Place of Publication: | Madison, United States of America | ISBN: | 0299212203 0299212246 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200503 British and Irish Literature | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950203 Languages and Literature | HERDC Category Description: | B2 Chapter in a Book - Other | Publisher/associated links: | http://books.google.com/books?id=z2Yf1FX02EkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA315 http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2625.htm http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/31364294?selectedversion=NBD26996642 |
Editor: | Editor(s): Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter |
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