Although Robert Louis Stevenson was a late Victorian, his
work--especially "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"--still circulates energetically and
internationally among popular and academic audiences and among
young and old. Admired by Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jorge
Luis Borges, Stevenson's fiction crosses the boundaries of genre
and challenges narrow definitions of the modern and the
postmodern.
Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides an introduction to the
writer's life, a survey of the criticism of his work, and a variety
of resources for the instructor. In part 2, "Approaches," thirty
essays address such topics as Stevenson's dialogue with James about
literature; his verse for children; his Scottish heritage; his
wanderlust; his work as gothic fiction, as science fiction, as
detective fiction; his critique of imperialism in the South Seas;
his usefulness in the creative writing classroom; and how he
encourages expansive thinking across texts, times, places, and
lives.
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