Shu-Fang Lai (National Sun Yat-Sen University)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Chinese Translations and Interpretations of Kidnapped’
Since 1908 when a Chinese translation first appeared, the Scottish writer has become a favourite with both adults and children in the Chinese-speaking world. Among his most popular works, his adventure […]
Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega (University of French Polynesia)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide or Virgil’s Aeneid Revisited: How Literature May Make or Mar Empires’
Virgil wrote The Aeneid (~ 29-19 BC) upon Caesar Augustus’s request to validate his status as undisputed ruler of the Roman Empire. […]
John Lyon (University of Bristol)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Reading Robert Louis Stevenson in Falkirk’
Falkirk was a market town and then became an industrial centre, particularly of iron works and foundries. The Roman Antonine Wall is to be found there. William Wallace was defeated […]
Donald Mackenzie (University of Glasgow)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘The Questionable Failure of Catriona’
The paper will locate Catriona in historical fiction after Scott. It is Stevenson’s one essay at the kind of Scott novel which meshes the story of its protagonist with the history […]
Catherine Mathews (Independent Scholar)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Charting the Foreigner at Home: Contemporary Newspaper Records of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, New Zealand and Australia 1890-1894’
This paper examines coverage of Stevenson in Australian and New Zealand newspapers during the final part of his […]
Maureen M. Martin (William Paterson University)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Crimes of Authorship: The Master of Ballantrae, Scottish Masculinity, and the Telling of the National Tale’
In The Master of Ballantrae, Stevenson locates the writer of Scotland’s national tale (himself included) at the center of a […]
Burkhard Niederhoff (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘The Road not Taken: Stevenson’s “Will o’ the Mill” and the Motif of the Unlived Life’
The proposed paper deals with the motif of the unlived life, which we find, in its most characteristic version, […]
continue readingDavid Miller (University of Stirling)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘In some shut convent place’: The Question of Stevenson’s Poetry
‘Art, considered in its highest vocation, is and remains for us a thing of the past.’ – Hegel, Lectures on Fine Art, Vol. 2
In his essay […]
Barry Menikoff (University of Hawaii)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘A Note — “On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature”’
The style is the man, goes the old Gallic saying, and when the man is Robert Louis Stevenson the quip has both sting and resonance. […]
Glenda Norquay (Liverpool John Moores University)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Romance and revivification: St Ives’
This paper seeks to locate Stevenson’s late, unfinished and critically neglected novel, St Ives, in relation to historical romance and specific versions of that genre in circulation in the 1890s. During […]
