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Given the significant differences between their aims and styles as novelists - James the great investigator of the interior life, and Stevenson the equally great exponent of the adventure story - it's somewhat surprising to find the two men were good friends who admired one another's work. This course will use their friendship as a starting point to explore their novels in general, while paying particular attention to their narrative techniques; the novels under discussion will include Daisy Miller, Turn of the Screw, Portrait of a Lady, Treasure Island, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped. Students will also be asked to create original work that both responds to and takes off from their reading of these books.