Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1890

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Biographical Materials

• Introduction
• Chronology
• Biographical Essay
• Works

Literary Relations

• Aesthetes and Decadents
• Mid- and late-Victorian Fiction

Cultural Contexts

• Victorianism
• Religion and Philosophy
  • Presbyterianism
  • agnoticism

Social and Political Contexts

• Sharon Aronofsky Weltman's review of Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body
• Victorian Social and Political History: An Overview
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Victorian views of suicide
• Science and Technology

Theme and Technique

• Themes
• Allusions in Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
• Characterization
• Imagery, Symbolism, and Motifs
• Genre and Mode

Bibliography and Related Web Resources

• Bibliography
• The Robert Louis Stevenson Website (Scotland)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Italian site)
• Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches the complete texts of five works by Stevenson

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Last modified 6 March 2009