CONTENTS Preface ix Introduction xiii RICHARD AMBROSINI and RICHARD DURY List of Abbreviations xxix PART I The Pleasures of Reading, Writing, and Popular Culture Stevenson, Morris, and the Value of Idleness 3 STEPHEN ARATA Living in a Book: RLS as an Engaged Reader 13 R. L. ABRAHAMSON The Four Boundary-Crossings of R. L. Stevenson, Novelist and Anthropologist 23 RICHARD AMBROSINI Stevenson and the (Un)familiar: The Aesthetics of Late-Nineteenth-Century Biography 36 LIZ FARR vi Contents The Greenhouse vs. the Glasshouse: Stevenson's Stories as Textual Matrices 48 NATHALIE JAECK Trading Texts: Negotiations of the Professional and the Popular in the Case of Treasure Island 60 GLENDA NORQUAY Stevenson and Popular Entertainment 70 STEPHEN DONOVAN Tontines, Tontine Insurance, and Commercial Culture: Stevenson and Osbourne's The Wrong Box 83 GORDON HIRSCH PART II Scotland and the South Seas The Master of Ballantrae, or The Writing of Frost and Stone 97 JEAN-PIERRE NAUGRETTE Quarreling with the Father 109 LUISA VILLA Figures in a Landscape: Scott, Stevenson, and Routes to the Past 121 JENNI CALDER Burking the Scottish Body: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Resurrection Men 133 CAROLINE MCCRACKEN-FLESHER Stevenson's Unfinished Autopsy of the Other 145 ILARIA B. SBORGI Voices of the Scottish Empire 158 MANFRED MALZAHN Stevenson and the Property of Language: Narrative, Value, Modernity 169 ROBBIE B. H. GOH Light, Darkness, and Shadow: Stevenson in the South Seas 181 ANN C. COLLEY Contents VI1 Violence in the South Seas: Stevenson, the Eye, and Desire 190 RALPH PARFECT Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: The South Seas from Journal to Fiction 199 OLIVER S. BUCKTON PART II I Evolutionary Psychology, Masculinity, and Dr. Jekyil and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Romance, and Evolutionary Psychology 215 JULIA REID Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Evolution: Crossing the Boundaries between Ideas and Art 228 OLENA M. TURNBULL Crossing the Bounds of Single Identity: Dr. Jekyil and Mr. Hyde and a Paper in a French Scientific Journal 237 RICHARD DURY "City of Dreadful Night": Stevenson's Gothic London 253 LINDA DRYDEN Pious Works: Aesthetics, Ethics, and the Modern Individual in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyil and Mr. Hyde 16^ RICHARD J. WALKER Dr. Jekyil and Mr. Hyde. A "Men's Narrative" of Hysteria and Containment 275 JANE V. RAGO Consumerism and Stevenson's Misfit Masculinities 286 DENNIS DENISOFF "Markheim" and the Shadow of the Other 299 MICHELA VANON ALLIATA viii Contents PART IV Textual and Cultural Crossings Masters of the Hovering Life: Robert Musil and R. L. Stevenson 315 ALAN SANDISON Whitman and Thoreau as Literary Stowaways in Stevenson's American Writings 327 WENDY R. KATZ The Pirate Chief in Salgari, Stevenson, and Calvino 338 ANN LAWSON LUCAS Murder by Suggestion: El sueno de los heroes and The Master ofBallantrae 348 DANIEL BALDERSTON Contributors 359 Index of Stevenson's Works 365 General Index 369 PPN: 254680941 Titel: Robert Louis Stevenson : writer of boundaries / ed. by Richard Ambrosini .... - Madison, Wis. [u.a.] : University of Wisconsin Press, 2006 ISBN: 0-299-21220-3Hbk.; 0-299-21224-6Pbk. Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund.