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- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Copyright
- © 2014 by The Regents of the University of California
- ISSN
- 0734-6018
- eISSN
- 1533-855X
- DOI
- 10.1525/rep.2014.125.1.54
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Technical language in novels, rare in itself, is still more rarely interpreted. Focusing on Robert Louis Stevenson’s bildungsromans, in this essay I argue that a technical maritime lexicon marks their protagonists’ accession to maturity. But that lexicon and the love for the world it attests to and demands also forces a redefinition of what it means to be mature, offering an open, adventurous, never-to-be completed Bildung that refuses the stasis of marriage or a settled profession.
Journal
Representations – University of California Press
Published: Jan 1, 2014