TY  - BOOK
AU  - Irvine,Robert P.
TI  - Prince Otto, by Robert Louis Stevenson
T2  - The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson : NEECWRLS
SN  - 9780748645244
AV  - PR5484 .P7 2014
U1  - 823.8 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface by the General Editors --; List of Abbreviations --; Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson --; Introduction --; PRINCE OTTO --; Dedication --; Book I. Prince Errant --; Book II. Of Love and Politics --; Book III. Fortunate Misfortune --; Bibliographical Postscript --; Appendices --; Note on the Text --; Emendation List --; End-of-Line Hyphens --; Explanatory Notes; restricted access
N2  - A playful, self-reflexive tale of politics and ethics.In Prince Otto, first published in serial form in 1885, Stevenson uses his genius for adventure and romance to explore some decidedly grown-up themes. The tiny nineteenth-century German state of Grünewald seems to be a principality of the world of fairy-tale. But its ruler is beset in public by the forces of modern politics, and troubled in private by an unhappy marriage. Ill-prepared to deal with either, Otto is forced to choose between them.Key Features This first fully edited edition of the novel will provoke readers to think again about the scope and purpose of Stevenson's brilliant story-tellingExplores the most modern of themes, the moral compromises required by marriage: a romance in which the marriage of the hero and the heroine is not the happy conclusion of the plot, but the problem that the plot has to resolveA fascinating text for what it tells us about Stevenson's goals and aspirations at this crucial stage of his career, and about the changing nature of the novel in English at the end of the nineteenth-century - see the Introduction and critical apparatus
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748645244
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748645244
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748645244/original
ER  -