Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fin-de-Siècle Vampire

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dc.title	Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fin-de-Siècle Vampire. “Olalla” (1885) as ‘Aesthetic Fantastic’
dc.contributor.author	Riccioni Angelo
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2020/1/robert-louis-stevenson-and-the-fin-de-siecle-vampi/
dc.description.abstract	“Olalla” (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson has usually been neglected by critics interested in late-Victorian culture. Preceding of just a few weeks the publication of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), this novella has been judged as a derivative work, a story whose interest lies in its different sources, ranging from Edward Bulwer Lytton’s A Strange Story to E.A. Poe’s tales. My analysis aims to prove that in writing this work, Stevenson is probably drawing inspiration from the imagery exploited by some members of the Aesthetic Movement, among them Walter Pater and Edward Burne-Jones.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 7 \| December 2020
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-12-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-11-06
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2020/01/004
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Aesthetic Culture
dc.subject	Aesthetic Culture
dc.subject	Olalla
dc.subject	Olalla
dc.subject	Robert Louis Stevenson
dc.subject	Robert Louis Stevenson
dc.subject	The ‘Aesthetic Fantastic’
dc.subject	The ‘Aesthetic Fantastic’

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Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fin-de-Siècle Vampire

“Olalla” (1885) as ‘Aesthetic Fantastic’

Angelo Riccioni Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italia

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“Olalla” (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson has usually been neglected by critics interested in late-Victorian culture. Preceding of just a few weeks the publication of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), this novella has been judged as a derivative work, a story whose interest lies in its different sources, ranging from Edward Bulwer Lytton’s A Strange Story to E.A. Poe’s tales. My analysis aims to prove that in writing this work, Stevenson is probably drawing inspiration from the imagery exploited by some members of the Aesthetic Movement, among them Walter Pater and Edward Burne-Jones.

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Dec. 21, 2020

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Dec. 12, 2020

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Nov. 6, 2020

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Keywords: Robert Louis Stevenson • Aesthetic Culture • The ‘Aesthetic Fantastic’ • Olalla

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