Stevenson and the Bravo
Date/Time
Date(s) - 30/09/2011
4:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
David Hume Tower
Categories
Talk by Professor Erik Simpson (Grinnell University)
Starting from the moment in Stevenson’s Strange Case when Jekyll refers to his creation of Hyde as like employing a bravo (a murderer for hire) Professor Simpson will discuss the literary history of the bravo, developments in nineteenth-century professionalism and Stevenson’s connection between these subjects in the novel.