The Careful Infidel: Calvinist Anthropology in the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

本文试图对罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《加尔维尼斯主义》进行首次全面的分析。通过对他的整个语料库的考虑，包括他的生平著作、小说、散文和信件，我将进行一次阅读，重点是他作品中的神学维度和功能。通过用宗教的视角打开迄今被模糊的方面，我将努力超越传统批评方法假定的分歧，论证史蒂文森与加尔文主义和苏格兰长老会传统的接触构成了他作品中难以捉摸的、统一的因素。我的博士学位将建立在我目前的MRES研究的基础上，这项研究侧重于史蒂文森小说中的文学双重(《杰基尔与海德》、《马克海姆》和《芭兰特大师》)，并展示他如何参与加尔文主义关于自我和双重宿命的人类学，以提供对二元性和二元性的积极救赎解释。这代表了我整个BA神学对神学和文学的深入研究的顶峰，这使我能够确定神学工作如何通过叙事和诗学来完成。最近的一个模块，《上帝与哥特式》，让我将这一重点扩展到包括通过体裁进行的教义探索。我的本科毕业论文关于集体意识和记忆的影响也将有助于这项研究。此外，我选择学习语言和文体学方面的几个本科英语模块，以装备我所需的关键分析技能。我目前在诺丁汉大学人文系的一份新期刊上担任评论编辑，这也加深了我对跨学科努力的熟悉。我在学术界的经验为我提供了将我的关注点从史蒂文森的小说扩展到他的非虚构类小说所需的综合方法论，这意味着我非常适合进行这种性质的跨学科项目。

This thesis seeks to offer the first comprehensive analysis of Robert Louis Stevenson's Calvinistimagination. Through a consideration of his corpus as a whole, including his life writings, fiction,essays and letters, I shall undertake a reading which focuses on the theological dimensions andfunctions within his works. By utilising a religious lens to open up aspects hitherto obscured, I shallendeavour to transgress the divisions conventional critical approaches assume, to argue Stevenson'sengagement with the Calvinist and Scottish Presbyterian tradition constitutes the elusive, unifying,factor to his works.My PhD will build upon my current MRes research, which focuses on the literary double withinStevenson's fiction ("Jekyll and Hyde", "Markheim" and The Master of Ballantrae) and demonstrateshow he engaged with the Calvinist anthropology of self and double predestination, to provide a positive- redemptive interpretation of the doppelgänger and duality. This represents the culmination of asustained study of theology and literature throughout my BA Theology which has enabled me toidentify how theological work can be accomplished through narrative and poetics. A recent module,'God and Gothic', allowed me to expand this focus to include doctrinal explorations undertaken throughgenre. My undergraduate dissertation on the effects of collective consciousness and memory will alsobenefit this study. Additionally, I elected to study several undergraduate English modules in languageand stylistics to equip me with critical analytical skills required. My present involvement as a ReviewsEditor in a new journal from the University of Nottingham Humanities department has also enhancedmy familiarity with cross disciplinary efforts. My experience in academia has provided me with theintegrative methodology needed to extend my focus beyond Stevenson's fiction, to his nonfiction, andmeans I am ideally placed for an interdisciplinary project of this nature.