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<p><p>beloved For Generations As One Of Robert Louis Stevenson S Most Thrilling Adventure Novels, Kidnapped Tells The Story Of David Balfour, A Shrewd And Orphaned Lowlander, And Alan Breck Stewart, The Brave And Flamboyant Jacobite Rebel. Together With Its Less Familiar Sequel, David Balfour, Both Novels Constitute What Many Scholars Consider To Be Stevenson S Greatest Achievement In Fiction. In This Reinterpretation, Barry Menikoff Questions The Traditional Understanding Of These Twin Novels As Mere Adventure Stories. He Suggests Instead That Stevenson Wrote The Volumes With A Broader And More Searching Purpose In Mind. </p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Although Stevenson Chose To Cloak Himself In The Guise Of An Entertainer With No Aim Beyond Relating Amusing And Romantic Tales From The Past, Menikoff Reveals That The Writer Was A Serious Student Of Scottish History And Culture. His True Project Was Nothing Less Than The Reconstitution Of His Country's History In The Period Just After The Collapse Of The Jacobite Rebellion. Menikoff Contends That In Kidnapped And David Balfour Stevenson Imaginatively Reconstructed That Culture, In Part For The Sake Of His Nation

Author

Menikoff, Barry

Publisher

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781570035685

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction