Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the Victorian era Scottish novelist, story writer, poet, and playwrite Robert Louis Stevenson, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and articles published in peer-reviewed sources

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Introduction & Literary Criticism

"Robert Louis Stevenson." Articles on Stevenson's techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background. The Victorian Web, ed. George Landow.

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

"Robert Louis Stevenson." An article on Stevenson from the 1902 Atlantic Monthly magazine, by Bradford Torrey.

Notable Robert Louis Stevenson editions at the U of S. Carolina library

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

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. Victorian Poetry 35, 3 (Fall 1997) [first page of article only, blurred].

"Pirates, Pieces of Eight, and Pacific Nights." Teaching guide for teaching the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

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