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Robert Louis Stevenson: writer of boundaries

Richard. Ambrosini and Richard Dury c2006 © University of Wisconsin Press
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  • 9780299212209 (hardcover)
  • 9780299212230 (ebook)
  • 9780299212247 (paper)
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Introduction (RICHARD AMBROSINI and RICHARD DURY, page xiii)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xxix)
  • PART I The Pleasures of Reading, Writing, and Popular Culture
    • Stevenson, Morris, and the Value of Idleness (STEPHEN ARATA, page 3)
    • Living in a Book: RLS as an Engaged Reader (R. L. ABRAHAMSON, page 13)
    • The Four Boundary-Crossings of R. L. Stevenson, Novelist and Anthropologist (RICHARD AMBROSINI, page 23)
    • Stevenson and the (Un)familiar: The Aesthetics of Late-Nineteenth-Century Biography (LIZ FARR, page 36)
    • The Greenhouse vs. the Glasshouse: Stevenson's Stories as Textual Matrices (NATHALIE JAËCK, page 48)
    • Trading Texts: Negotiations of the Professional and the Popular in the Case of Treasure Island (GLENDA NORQUAY, page 60)
    • Stevenson and Popular Entertainment (STEPHEN DONOVAN, page 70)
    • Tontines, Tontine Insurance, and Commercial Culture: Stevenson and Osbourne's The Wrong Box (GORDON HIRSCH, page 83)
  • PART II Scotland and the South Seas
    • The Master of Ballantrae, or The Writing of Frost and Stone (JEAN-PIERRE NAUGRETTE, page 97)
    • Quarreling with the Father (LUISA VILLA, page 109)
    • Figures in a Landscape: Scott, Stevenson, and Routes to the Past (JENNI CALDER, page 121)
    • Burking the Scottish Body: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Resurrection Men (CAROLINE MCCRACKEN-FLESHER, page 133)
    • Stevenson's Unfinished Autopsy of the Other (ILARIA B. SBORGI, page 145)
    • Voices of the Scottish Empire (MANFRED MALZAHN, page 158)
    • Stevenson and the Property of Language: Narrative, Value, Modernity (ROBBIE B. H. GOH, page 169)
    • Light, Darkness, and Shadow: Stevenson in the South Seas (ANN C. COLLEY, page 181)
    • Violence in the South Seas: Stevenson, the Eye, and Desire (RALPH PARFECT, page 190)
    • Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: The South Seas from Journal to Fiction (OLIVER S. BUCKTON, page 199)
  • PART III Evolutionary Psychology, Masculinity, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    • Stevenson, Romance, and Evolutionary Psychology (JULIA REID, page 215)
    • Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Evolution: Crossing the Boundaries between Ideas and Art (OLENA M. TURNBULL, page 228)
    • Crossing the Bounds of Single Identity: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and a Paper in a French Scientific Journal (RICHARD DURY, page 237)
    • "City of Dreadful Night": Stevenson's Gothic London (LINDA DRYDEN, page 253)
    • Pious Works: Aesthetics, Ethics, and the Modern Individual in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (RICHARD J. WALKER, page 265)
    • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A "Men's Narrative" of Hysteria and Containment (JANE V. RAGO, page 275)
    • Consumerism and Stevenson's Misfit Masculinities (DENNIS DENISOFF, page 286)
    • "Markheim" and the Shadow of the Other (MICHELA VANON ALLIATA, page 299)
  • PART IV Textual and Cultural Crossings
    • Masters of the Hovering Life: Robert Musil and R. L. Stevenson (ALAN SANDISON, page 315)
    • Whitman and Thoreau as Literary Stowaways in Stevenson's American Writings (WENDY R. KATZ, page 327)
    • The Pirate Chief in Salgari, Stevenson, and Calvino (ANN LAWSON LUCAS, page 338)
    • Murder by Suggestion: El sueño de los héroes and The Master of Ballantrae (DANIEL BALDERSTON, page 348)
  • Contributors (page 359)
  • Index of Stevenson's Works (page 365)
  • General Index (page 369)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
VS 49.4 (Summer 2007): 691-693 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_studies/v049/49.4ferguson.html
ELT 50.4 (2007): 454-457 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/english_literature_in_transition/v050/50.4jolly.html
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