“The Suicide Club” In The Context Of The Victorian Period
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The Suicide Club, Robert Louis Stevenson, Victorian PeriodAbstract
This article approach historically “The Club of Suicides” written in the 1878 by Robert Louis Stevenson under the context on late Victorian period. It’s examined in the first of its three chapters and analyzed as a historical document and a literary intervention by Stevenson about his time and the formation of capitalism. The characters are interpreted as keys of analysis to understand (i) the decline of nobility in the Victorian period, (ii) a commodification of society relationship to a service for sale (iii) and the Victorian world understood as the bourgeois world. I argument that in the elaboration of the book Stevenson highlights the decline of nobility during Victorian period. The research material, in addition to “The Suicide Club”, includes secondary sources, biographical information about the author and literature about relationship the Victorian historical context.
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