Robert Louis Stevenson’s works provide a fascinating window into distortions of national identity in representations of place and self. What does a Scottish writer have to say about English identity, reading, writing and fears of degeneracy at the fin-de-siècle? When Jekyll and Hyde (1886) is set in London, why does it evoke that other nineteenth-century medical capital, Edinburgh? How does Treasure Island (1883) reflect imperial ideals of Englishness and conquest? And most specifically for this post, what does the portrayal of Englishness, reading and degeneracy in The Ebb-Tide (1894) suggest about this national identity?
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