期刊名称：E-Fabulations : e-Journal of Children's Literature
电子版ISSN：1646-8880
出版年度：2007
卷号：01
出版社：Universidade do Porto
摘要：An amazing adventure, one that everyone dreams of since childhood, is the quest for a secret treasure in a distant island. A brave boy, among good and bad pirates, within the exotic setting of a mysterious island, is the protagonist of one of the most famous stories for the young: Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Treasure Island (1881) We shall start with a general outlook at the historical background of the Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure, which goes back to the 18th century, at the end of the Georgian era, leading the way to 19th century Victorian England. It was a time of piracy and big ships as well, felt by Stevenson and his contemporaries as a lost time, a lost way of living and above all a time where individual freedom was much more at hand, or at least seemed easier to attain than in those years under Victoria’s rule.
