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Previous Volumes
| Volume One | Volume Two | Volume Three | Volume Four | Volume Five | Volume Six | Volume Seven |
Volume One (July 2004)
Richard Ambrosini, ‘R.L. Stevenson and the Ethical Value of Writing for the Market'
Stephen Arata, ‘Stevenson Reading'
Oliver S. Buckton, ‘“Faithful to his Map”: Profit and Desire in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island'
Liam Connell, ‘More Than a Library: the Ethnographic Potential of Stevenson's South Seas Writing'
Richard Dury, ‘The Campness of the New Arabian Nights'
Vincent Giroud, ‘ E.J.B. and R.L.S.: The Story of the Beinecke Stevenson Collection'
Douglas S. Mack, ‘“Can the Subaltern Speak?”: Stevenson, Hogg and Samoa'
Sudesh Mishra, ‘No Sign is an Island'
Glenda Norquay, ‘ Ghost Writing: Stevenson and Dumas'
Olena M. Turnbull, ‘“All life that is not mechanical is spun out of two threads”; Women Characters in Robert Louis Stevenson's Catriona (1893)'
Richard J. Walker, ‘ He, I say—I Cannot Say I: Modernity and the Crisis of Identity in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'
Roderick Watson, ‘”You cannot fight me with a word'”' The Master of Ballantrae and the wilderness beyond dualism'
Volume Two (July 2005)
Hilary Beattie, ‘Dreaming, doubling and gender in the work of Robert Louis Stevenson: The strange case of “Olalla”'
Sara Clayson, ‘“Steadfastly and Securely on His Upward Path”: Dr. Jekyll's Spiritualist Experiment'
Richard Dury, ‘Strange Language of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'
Liz Farr, ‘Surpassing the Love of Women: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pleasures of Boy-loving'
William Gray, ‘The Incomplete Fairy Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson'
Gordon Hirsch, ‘The Commercial World of The Wrecker'
Juergen Kramer, ‘Unity in Difference – A Comparative Reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's “The Beach of Falesá” and Joseph Conrad's “Heart of Darkness”'
Book Reviews:
Ann C. Colley, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination (Richard Dury)
Claire Harman, Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography (Eric Massie)
Volume Three (December 2006)
Jim C. Wilson, ‘RLS'
Katherine Linehan, 'The devil can cite scripture: intertextual hauntings in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'
Isaac Yue, 'Metaphors and the discourse of the late-Victorian divided self: the cultural implications of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and its Chinese translations'
Wendy R. Katz, 'Stevenson, Conrad and the idea of the gentleman: Long John Silver and Gentleman Brown'
Laavanyan Ratnapalan, 'Stevenson and cultural survivals in the South Seas'
Saverio Tomaiuolo, 'Under Mackellar's eyes: metanarrative strategies in The Master of Ballantrae'
Roger G. Swearingen, 'Stevenson's final text of Kidnapped'
Giuseppe Albano, ‘"Stand sicker in oor auncient ways": Stevenson's Scots drinking verse and the fulfilment of a pastoral fantasy'
Book Reviews:
Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury (eds.), Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries (Benjamin Brabon)
Renata Kobetts Miller, Recent Reinterpretations of Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Why and How This Novel Continues to Affect Us (Richard Dury)
Volume Four (September 2007)
R. L. Abrahamson, ‘“I never read such an impious book”: re-examining Stevenson’s Fables’
Richard Ambrosini, ‘Stevenson’s self-portrait as a popular author in the Scribner’s essays and The Wrong Box’
Hilary J. Beattie, ‘“The interest of the attraction exercised by the great RLS of those days”: Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James and the influence of friendship’
Jenni Calder, ‘“I should like to be an American”: Scots in the USA’
Dennis Denisoff, ‘Pleasurable subjectivities and temporal conflation in Stevenson’s aesthetics’
Cinzia Giglioni, ‘Stevenson gets lost in the South Seas’
Gordon Hirsch, ‘The fiction of Lloyd Osbourne: was this “American gentleman” Stevenson’s literary heir?’
Mary B. Hotaling, ‘Trudeau, tuberculosis and Saranac Lake’
William B. Jones Jr, ‘“Hello, Mackellar”: Classics Illustrated meets The Master of Ballantrae’
Wendy R. Katz, ‘Stevenson’s Silverado Squatters: the figure of ‘the Jew’ and the rhetoric of race’
Jürgen Kramer, ‘The sea in Robert Louis Stevenson’s writings’
Ilaria B. Sborgi, ‘“Home” in the South Seas’
Marilyn Simon, ‘Doubled brothers, divided self: duality and destruction in The Master of Ballantrae’
Robert Benjamin Stevenson III, ‘Stevenson’s dentist: an unsung hero’
Roderick Watson, ‘“The unrest and movement of our century”: the universe of The Wrecker’
Book Reviews:
Julia Reid, Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle (Linda Dryden)
Volume Five (December 2008)
Ron Butlin, ‘Good Angel, Bad Angel’
Alan Grant, ‘Zombie Writer Guts Kidnapped!’
David Kinloch, ‘Thyrsus’
Patrick McGrath, ‘The Brute that Slept Within Me’
Donal McLaughlin, ‘Not Just for the Exercise’; ‘Louis & Fanny’
Barry Menikoff, ‘Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson and a Person of the Tale’
Cees Nooteboom, ‘Mount Vaea, Upolu Island, Samoa’
James Robertson, ‘Fragments of Stevenson’
Suhayl Saadi, ‘Five Seconds to Midnight’
Louise Welsh, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and the Theatre of the Brain’
Hamish Whyte and Diana Hendry, ‘Indefatigable Birds: Glimpses of Grez’
Book Reviews:
Oliver S. Buckton, Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson (Laurence Davies)
Glenda Norquay, Robert Louis Stevenson and theories of reading. The reader as vagabond (Roderick Watson)
Thomas L. Reed, Jr., The Transforming Draught: Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Victorian Alcohol Debate (Anne Schwan)
Volume Six (2009)
Hilary Beattie, ‘Stormy nights and headless women: heterosexual conflict and desire in the work of Robert Louis Stevenson’
Nicoletta Brazzelli, ‘Maps, treasures and imaginary lands: Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines as a response to Stevenson’s Treasure Island’
Nancy Bunge, ‘The Calvinistic romance: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’
Gordon Hirsch, ‘The rejection of dichotomous thinking in Stevenson’s literary essays’
Nathalie Jaëck, ‘To jump or not to jump: Stevenson’s kidnapping of adventure’
Matthew Kaiser, ‘Mapping Stevenson’s rhetorics of play’
Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega, ‘Stevenson’s ‘little tale’ is ‘a library’: an anthropological approach to The Beach of Falesá’
Rosella Mallardi, ‘Stevenson and Conrad: Colonial Imagination and Photography’
Burkhard Niederhoff, ‘Unreliable narration in The Master of Ballantrae: an external approach’
Laavanyan Ratnapalan, ‘Stevenson’s anthropology of the Pacific Islands’
Sara Rizzo, ‘Graphic visions of Dr Jekyll’
Andrew De Young, The case of the missing detective: detection, deception, and delicacy in Jekyll and Hyde’
Tania Zulli, ‘“A phrase of Virgil speaks of English places”: Classical and European literature in R. L. Stevenson’s South Sea Tales’
Book Reviews
Eileen Dunlop, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Travelling Mind (Hilary Grimes)
Damian Atkinson, ed., The Letters of William Ernest Henley to Robert Louis Stevenson (Laurence Davies)
Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. Writers of Transition, ed. by Linda Dryden, Stephen Arata and Eric Massie (Roderick Watson)
Volume Seven (2010)
David Annwn, ‘ “The Gnome’s Lighted Scrolls”: consumerism and pre-cinematic visual technologies in The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde’
Dana Fore, ‘Snatching identity: “passing” and disabled monstrosity in Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde and “The Body Snatcher”’
Caroline A. Howitt, Stevenson and economic Scandal: ‘Our City Men No. 1–ASalt-water Financier’
Jeremy Lim, ‘Calvinism and forms of storytelling: Mackellar’s parental voice in The Master of Ballantrae’
Glenda Norquay, ‘Squandering names’: place, nomenclature and cultural identity
Roger G. Swearingen, Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘On the Art of Literature’ (1880) – a reading text
Jean Taylor,‘Vailima’ (poem)
Sara Wasson, ‘Olalla’s legacy: Twentieth-century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship’
Book Reviews:
Roslyn Jolly, Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific: Travel, Empire, and the Author’s Profession (Ann C. Colley)
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Complete Works, introduced by Barry Menikoff (Hilary Grimes)