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Christy Di Frances (University of Aberdeen)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘“Far From Their Own Place”: Song as the Nexus of Home in Stevenson’s Scottish Adventures’
In Edinburgh Picturesque Notes, Stevenson noticed how the ‘nugget of cottages at Broughton Market’ resounded, ‘like Fergusson’s butterfly [. . .with] […]
Andreas Dierkes (University of Paderborn)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Tracing the Roots of Evil: Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde in Contemporary Literature’
Popular culture is marked by its obsession with adaptation. TV and cinema productions, musicals, audio plays, computer games – the multimedia society constantly develops […]
Linda Dryden (Edinburgh Napier University)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Locating Robert Louis Stevenson: Reputation, Genre and Influence’
Within the canon of English Literature Robert Louis Stevenson’s position has oscillated between celebrated man of letters and popular writer of boys’ adventure fiction. This paper will situate […]
Richard Dury (University of Bergamo)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Stevenson’s Essays on Japanese Topics’
Some affinities can be seen between the mind-style of RLS and the typically Japanese world-view. Blythe’s 1942 Zen and English Literature uses examples from Stevenson’s Fables in his first chapter to […]
Michelle Elleray (University of Guelph)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Disorienting Ballantyne the Brave: The Ebb-Tide and the Boys’ Adventure Novel’
Despite his youthful adulation of The Coral Island and his invocation of “Ballantyne the Brave” at the beginning of Treasure Island, R. L. Stevenson’s The […]
David Floyd (Charleston Southern University)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘“A Promise of Intellect and Refinement”: Stevenson’s Silencing of the Victorian Professional’
The late nineteenth century saw the emergence of experts who “depended for their livelihood on the marketing of particular specialized knowledges” (Daly 45). These […]
Annette Federico (James Madison University)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Stevenson’s Ethical Turn’
In Death Sentences, his 1986 study of representations of dying in Victorian fiction, Garrett Stewart emphasizes the essential triangulation of death, content, and form. His critical approach is principally deconstructive and stylistic, but […]
Jack and Carolyn Fleming (Independent Scholars)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Stevenson and Music – From Edinburgh to Samoa’
Stevenson loved music and frequently alluded to music and musical instruments in his writing. He discovered his love for classical music in Edinburgh when, reluctantly, he attended a […]
Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Stevenson and the Politics of Friendship’
The literary friendships of the 1880s have not generally been thought of as a significant moment in English Literature. Usually viewed as coteries of second-rate ‘bookmen’ or ‘men of letters’, […]
Lesley Graham (Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2)
Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010
‘Selfless: The Shifting Reputation of Alison Cunningham in Stevenson Biographies’
The origins of Stevenson’s imagination and his distinctive voice have regularly been located in the influence of Alison Cunningham during his formative years. She gave him […]
