Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

A selective list of online literary criticism for Robert Louis Stevenson, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages


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General Criticism

Lepine, Anna. Hyde and Seek in an Age of Surveillance: Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the BBC’s Jekyll. In Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies, Winter 2008/9.

Mehew, Ernest, ed. A review of Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Ernest Mehew. Reviewed by Ben Downing in The New Criterion

On teaching the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

Older criticism on Robert Louis Stevenson, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)

Details on the Robert Louis Stevenson holdings at the U. of S. Carolina library

Web site for Robert Lewis Stevenson Club, includes bibliography, filmography, life and works, critical reception, museum and library collections, and more

An online exhibit of Robert Louis Stevenson editions and photos, Univ. of S. Carolina

A guide to Victorian research resources from the VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies

Neo-Victorian Studies, a new, peer-reviewed, online journal that is "dedicated to the exploration of the contemporary fascination with re-imagining the nineteenth century and its varied literary, artistic, socio-political and historical contexts in both British and international frameworks."

Colley, Ann C. "'Writing Towards Home': The Landscape of A Child's Garden of Verses." Colley considers the role of nostalgia as an organizing force for the imagination and memory in Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. In Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 3, Fall 1997 (taken offline)


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