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<table of contents, p. v/vii/ix> Contents Preface 000 Acknowledgements 000 Introduction 000 Abbreviations 000 I. THE PLEASURES OF READING, WRITING AND POPULAR CULTURE Stevenson, Morris, and the Value of Idleness 000 Stephen Arata Living in a Book: RLS as an Engaged Reader 000 R. L. Abrahamson The Four Boundary-Crossings of R. L. Stevenson, Novelist and Anthropologist 000 Richard Ambrosini Stevenson and the (Un)familiar: The Aesthetics of Late-Nineteenth Century Biography 000 Liz Farr The Greenhouse vs. the Glasshouse: Stevenson's Stories as Textual Matrices 000 Nathalie Jaëck Trading Texts: negotiations of the professional and the popular in the case of Treasure Island 000 Glenda Norquay Stevenson and Popular Entertainment 000 Stephen Donovan Tontines, Tontine Insurance, and Commercial Culture: Stevenson and Osbourne's The WrongBox 000 Gordon Hirsch II. SCOTLAND AND THE SOUTH SEAS The Master of Ballantrae, or The Writing of Frost and Stone 000 Jean-Pierre Naugrette Quarrelling with the Father 000 Luisa Villa Figures in a Landscape: Scott, Stevenson and Routes to the Past 000 Jenni Calder Burking the Scottish Body: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Resurrection Men 000 Caroline McCracken-Flesher Stevenson's Unfinished Autopsy of the 'Other' 000 Ilaria B. Sborgi Voices of the Scottish Empire 000 Manfred Malzahn Stevenson and the Property of Language: Narrative, Value, Modernity 000 Robbie B. H. Goh Light, Darkness, and Shadow: Stevenson in the South Seas 000 Ann C. Colley Violence In The South Seas: Stevenson, The Eye, And Desire 000 Ralph Parfect Cruising With Robert Louis Stevenson: The South Seas From Journal To Fiction 000 Oliver S. Buckton III. EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY, MASCULINITY AND DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE Stevenson, Romance, and Evolutionary Psychology 000 Julia Reid Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Evolution: Crossing the Boundaries Between Ideas and Art 000 Olena M.Turnbull Crossing the Bounds of Single Identity: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and a Paper in a French Scientific Journal 000 Richard Dury "City of Dreadful Night": Stevenson's Gothic London 000 Linda Dryden Pious Works: Aesthetics, Ethics and the Modern Individual in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 000 Richard J. Walker Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A 'Men's Narrative' of Hysteria and Containment 000 Jane V. Rago Consumerism and Stevenson's Misfit Masculinities 000 Dennis Denisoff "Markheim" and the Shadow of the Other 000 Michela Vanon Alliata IV. TEXTUAL AND CULTURAL CROSSINGS Masters of the Hovering Life: Robert Musil and R. L. Stevenson 000 Alan Sandison Whitman and Thoreau as Literary Stowaways in Stevenson's American Writings 000 Wendy R. Katz The Pirate Chief in Salgari, Stevenson and Calvino 000 Ann Lawson Lucas Murder by Suggestion: El sueño de los héroes and The Master of Ballantrae 000 Daniel Balderston Contributors 000 Index 000
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation.