Genre
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Treasure Island: Genre 1 key example

Key Examples in Treasure Island

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

Written during 1881 and 1882, Treasure Island is considered a work of Victorian literature. Victorian literature typically depicted the lives of ordinary, common people and offered moral lessons to the reader. However, Treasure Island is interested in adventure, too, so the novel takes an otherwise ordinary character (Jim) and brings him into the seedy world of piracy. Many Victorian authors, Robert Louis Stevenson included, were fascinated by pirates, a nostalgic tendency that reflected their anxieties about the industrialization of Britain and the rigid norms placed on them by Victorian society.