Robert Louis Stevenson : writer of boundaries /

Other Authors: Ambrosini, Richard.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Stevenson, Morris, and the value of idleness / Stephen Arata
  • Living in a book: RLS as an engaged reader / R.L. Abrahamson
  • The four boundary-crossings of R.L. Stevenson, novelist and anthropologist / Richard Ambrosini
  • Stevenson and the (un)familiar: the aesthetics of late-nineteenth century biography / Liz Farr
  • The greenhouse vs. the glasshouse: Stevenson's stories as textual matrices / Nathalie Jaëck
  • Trading texts: negotiations of the professional and the popular in the case of Treasure Island / Glenda Norquay
  • Stevenson and popular entertainment / Stephen Donovan
  • Tontines, tontine insurance, and commercial culture: Stevenson and Osbourne's The wrong box / Gordon Hirsch
  • The Master of Ballantrae, or The writing of Frost and Stone / Jean-Pierre Naugrette
  • Quarrelling with the father / Luisa Villa figures in a landscape: Scott, Stevenson and routes to the past / Jenni Calder
  • Burking the Scottish body: Robert Louis Stevenson and the resurrection men / Caroline McCracken-Flesher
  • Stevenson's unfinished autopsy of the 'Other' / Ilaria B. Sborgi
  • Voices of the Scottish Empire / Manfred Malzahn
  • Stevenson and the property of language: narrative, value, modernity / Robbie B.H. Goh
  • Light, darkness, and shadow: Stevenson in the South Seas / Ann C. Colley
  • Violence in the South Seas: Stevenson, the eye, and desire / Ralph Parfect
  • Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: the South Seas from journal to fiction / Oliver S. Buckton
  • Stevenson, romance, and evolutionary psychology / Julia Reid Robert
  • Louis Stevenson and nineteenth-century theories of evolution: crossing the boundaries between ideas and art / Olena M. Turnbull
  • Crossing the bounds of single identity: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and a paper in a French scientific journal / Richard Dury
  • "City of Dreadful Night": Stevenson's gothic London / Linda Dryden
  • Pious works: aesthetics, ethics and the modern individual in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Richard J. Walker
  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: a 'men's narrative' of hysteria and containment / Jane V. Rago
  • Consumerism and Stevenson's misfit masculinities / Dennis Denisoff
  • "Markheim" and the shadow of the other / Michela Vanon Alliata
  • Masters of the hovering life: Robert Musil and R.L. Stevenson / Alan Sandison
  • Whitman and Thoreau as literary stowaways in Stevenson's American writings / Wendy R. Katz
  • The pirate chief in Salgari, Stevenson and Calvino / Ann Lawson Lucas
  • Murder by suggestion: El sueño de los héroes and The master of Ballantrae / Daniel Balderston.