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Article Dans Une Revue Victorian Literature and Culture Année : 2013

Stevenson's "the ebb-tide", or Virgil's "aeneid" revisited

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Robert Louis Stevenson took it for granted that Rome had shaped most of the Western modern world: “the average man at home . . . is sunk over the ears in Roman civilisation,” he wrote in a letter to H. B. Baildon (Mehew 474). Unlike the English contemporaries of his own class, he had not been steeped in classical literature, nor had he “internalised Latin literature in the way he ascribed to his English character Robert Herrick . . . in The Ebb-Tide” – mostly because his poor health had precluded regular school attendance (Jolly, Stevenson in the Pacific 37). But he did come to the classics, “from the outside” as Roslyn Jolly demonstrates, through his legal studies: “Rome counted to him as something very much more than a literature – a whole system of law and empire” that had laid the foundations of most Western societies.
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Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega. Stevenson's "the ebb-tide", or Virgil's "aeneid" revisited: how literature may make or mar empires. Victorian Literature and Culture, 2013, 41 (03), pp.561-593. ⟨hal-02046924⟩
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