Trevor Grimshaw (University Campus Suffolk)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Jekyll and Hyde: A Response To a New Elite’
I am proposing a paper in response to the call for papers for the conference, one that locates Stevenson in his political, cultural and historical context. The […]

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Timothy S. Hayes (Auburn University)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Adventures in Neverland: Reading The Ebb-Tide through Barrie’s Eyes’
Despite his friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad, two famous critics of European imperialism, J.M. Barrie never created a work that focused on this crucial […]

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Richard Hill (University of Hawaii)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Illustrating Island Nights’ Entertainments: the problem of exotic authenticity’
My paper will discuss the illustrations for Island Nights’ Entertainments as extensions of the texts they illustrate.  It will examine Stevenson’s intentions for, and understanding of, the […]

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Caroline A. Howitt (University of St Andrews)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘The Wood and the Wave: Relocating Romance’
‘There fell a war in a woody place, / Lay far across the sea’ recounts the Stevensonian ballad ‘Ticonderoga’; meanwhile, ‘green days in forests and blue days at sea’ […]

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Gordon Hirsch (University of Minnesota)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Locating RLS in relation to Brander Matthews and Walter Besant’s Theories of Literary Collaboration in the Production of Popular Fiction’

Stevenson scholars are likely to know that Stevenson’s “A Humble Remonstrance” was written as a response […]

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Robert P. Irvine (University of Edinburgh)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Stevenson the Communard’
When Stevenson stopped off in Paris to visit his cousin Bob in April 1874, the city was still under martial law after the suppression of the Commune three years before. This paper will […]

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Nathalie Jaëck (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Stevenson (and Co)’s Literary Utopia’

In this paper, I propose to examine a paradox about Stevenson, who seems to be both a very mobile author, explicitly willing to circulate from one genre to another (the […]

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Ingrid Jendrzejewski (Independent Scholar)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘“No True Science Without Imagination”: Representations of Science and the Scientist in turn-of-the-20th-century dramatisations of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’
Examining the way science and scientists have been portrayed in stage plays has much to tell […]

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Matthew Kaiser (Harvard University)

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Stevenson’s Lungs’
“Stevenson’s Lungs” is part of a second book project titled Anatomy of History, which explores the unacknowledged physiological dimension to historical consciousness. Focusing primarily upon his historical novels, I locate Stevenson’s meditations upon the […]

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Azer Banu Kemaloğlu (Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

‘Relocating Stevenson: From a Victorian to a Post/Modern World’
Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) appears to be a Victorian novel.  Yet, the highly acclaimed novel experiments on […]

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

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