C. Method of the Study
Library research was used in this analysis. The primary source was the novel Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson. The
secondary one were books and websites about the theories, approach, and critic that were used to analyse the problems. The books A Glossary of Literary Terms,
Writing Themes about Literature, Mastering English Literature, Society in the Novel, Reading and Writing About Literature, The Age of Louis XIV: The Story of
Civilization Part VIII, Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative, A Survey of European Civilization, etc
were used as the main sources to determine the approach and theories of this study.
There were some steps in to analyse this novel. First, the writer read the novel comprehensively to understand the story. Based on the understanding of the
story, the writer was interested in the social condition of French society in the Cevennes. To know about what the literary work actually implied, the writer read
the sources about the socio-cultural historical background in French related to the novel.
Then, the second step was collecting data about the review of related studies, opinion and information about the novel by the same author. It also
consisted of collecting data about the theories of setting, society, representation and socio-cultural historical approach from books and websites.
The third step taken by the writer was trying to answer the problem formulation by applying the theories to the work. Theories of setting were used to
analyse the setting in the novel. Theory of society was applied to analyse the 21
society. Theories on representation were used to analyse the meaning of what the setting represents and to analyse the unseen from the seen of the text, then to get
the real thing from it. Then, the socio-cultural historical background of France in the eighteenth
century was used to strengthen the idea that the novel was a social criticism toward the society in Cevennes French at that time.
Finally, after analysing the setting and examining how the setting reflects the French society and also the social criticisms toward the society, the problem
formulation have been answered. From these steps, the conclusion could be
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