Programme/Abstracts

Posted on Monday, June 14th, 2010

The final versions of the conference programme and abstracts can now be downloaded.

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Robert-Louis Abrahamson (University of Maryland University College)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘“Louis Stevenson – Scotch literary mediocrity”? Making his way in the London literary world’
I want to locate Stevenson in London in the 1870s as he launched his literary career. The period I am looking at […]

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Sarah Ames (University of Edinburgh)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Stevenson and the Economics of Suicide’
In the midst of the late nineteenth-century’s decline of the gentleman and the rise of the entrepreneur, Stevenson published ‘The Suicide Club’ (1878/1882), the first of his topsy-turvy New Arabian […]

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Hilary J. Beattie (Columbia University)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Stevenson’s Mirrored Images or, Games of Hyde and Seek’
W. E. Henley once in later life observed of Robert Louis Stevenson that he ‘could not be in the same room with a mirror but he must […]

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Nancy Bunge (Michigan State University)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Improving on Mark Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne: Kidnapped and The Master of Ballantrae’

Robert Louis Stevenson’s acknowledgment  that the American authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mark Twain influenced him seems strange because Twain and Hawthorne […]

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Jenni Calder (President, Scottish PEN)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Stevenson in the Wilderness: California, Kidnapped and The Master of Ballantrae’

In September 1879 Stevenson nearly died in California’s Santa Lucia Mountains. Arriving in Monterey at perhaps the lowest ebb of his life, both physically […]

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Ann Colley (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Locating Home’
Constantly moving from place to place, “out of my country and of myself,” Stevenson regularly dwelt in spaces belonging to others. Pondering this nomadic life, he once calculated the most nights he had spent […]

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Martin Danahay (Brock University)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Locating Mr. Hyde or, a Gothic Gnome in Cyberspace’
Mr. Hyde has always been a tricky fellow to locate. He is a protean and transgressive figure who defies boundaries. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of […]

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Laurence Davies (University of Glasgow)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Landscape with Fugitives’

Stevenson’s Scottish fiction often dramatises the experience of being on the run. My paper touches on ‘Heathercat’, St Ives, and The Master of Ballantrae, but its principal subject is Kidnapped. This ‘romance’ […]

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Paola D’Ercole (University of Salerno)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Territorial Mapping: The Sense of Place in Treasure Island’
In the 1980s and ‘90s critics’ attention began to move away from the analysis of time to that of space as Franco Moretti’s Atlas of the European […]

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To contact the conference organisers:

Scott Hames
Email:scott.hames@stir.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0)1786 466205

Adrian Hunter
Email: adrian.hunter@stir.ac.uk
Tel:+44(0)1786 467507

 

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