Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Literary Relations at the Fin de Siècle - Paperbackby Katherine Ashley (Author) This study looks at French literature from Stevenson's perspective and at Stevenson from a French perspective. Shedding light on how Stevenson's use of French contributes to his distinct style, and how and why the earliest French critics translated, disseminated and interpreted his books, it does so in context of the debates surrounding the development of the novel at the fin de sicle. Readers learn how the artistic