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Robert Macfarlane: The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher, 4 April 2002
The Mulberry Empire
by Philip Hensher.
Flamingo, 560 pp., £17.99, April 2002,0 00 711226 2 Show More
by Philip Hensher.
Flamingo, 560 pp., £17.99, April 2002,
“... pleasure: narcotic, sexual, fiscal – it has not been a particularly auspicious one either. For Robert Louis Stevenson, literary impersonation wasn’t only an essential tutelary tool but also a way for mature authors to widen their range. Out of imitation, Stevenson felt, could spring originality: pastiche was an indispensable way to harness what he called ... ”