Stephanie Saint (University of Aberdeen)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Progress in the Pacific? The “Science of Man” in Stevenson’s and Melville’s South Sea Writings’
In a letter sent from Vailima in 1894 Stevenson states: ‘The prim obliterated polite face of life, and the broad, bawdy, […]
Laavanyan Ratnapalan (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘R L Stevenson and Hawaiian Depopulation in the late-Nineteenth Century’`
Robert Louis Stevenson’s travels and experiences in the Pacific Islands during the years 1888-91 shaped his ideas about the impact of colonial activity in the Pacific […]
Julia Reid (University of Leeds)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘“Out of my country and myself I go”: Stevenson as Professional Emigrant’
This paper explores the multiple and ambiguous acts of border crossing narrated by Stevenson in his account of his journey from Scotland to California, […]
Ilaria Sborgi (Independent Scholar)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Stevenson’s Home: A Deconstructive Reading’
In a chapter of The Silverado Squatters titled “The Scot Abroad” (1883), Stevenson describes Scotland as ‘indefinable’ and underlines its sharp differences within (‘Two languages, many dialects, innumerable forms of piety, […]
Saverio Tomaiuolo (Cassino University)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘The Strange Case of Weir and St. Ives: Stevenson’s Last Adventures in Narration’
Apart from various literary fragments and attempted projects (including Heathercat and The Young Chevalier), Weir of Hermiston and St. Ives are Stevenson’s […]
continue readingShafquat Towheed (Open University)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Relocating Stevenson: reading between Confucius and the “China-boy”’
This paper proposes to relocate Stevenson’s engagement with China, Chinese civilization and culture, and the overseas Chinese, by re-examining a series of tropes evident in his fiction, […]
Sara Stevenson (National Galleries of Scotland)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Optical Engagement in Stevenson’s Edinburgh Picturesque Notes’
Edinburgh is remarkable for its topography, perched and sprawled round its hills and on the defensible spine of rock which runs between two volcanic plugs from the Castle down […]
Richard Walker (University of Central Lancashire)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Natural Pleasures in Destruction: Stevenson and Baudelaire’s Notebooks’
At the heart of this newly revealed modernity are inner contradictions, principles of destruction and self-destruction. (Henri Lefebvre, Introduction à La Modernité)
This paper examines the relationships between […]
Alex Thomson (University of Edinburgh)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Force and Styles: Stevenson on the Limit of Interpretation’
‘Form fascinates when one no longer has the force to understand force from within itself. That is, to create.’ (Derrida)
The OED tells us that to locate is […]
Roderick Watson (University of Stirling)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Ginger Beer and Earthquakes: Stevenson and Contingency’
‘We live the time that a match flickers; we pop the cork of a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant’ — ‘Aes Triplex’
Recent critical approaches […]
