Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

A selective bibliography of open access articles on 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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Literary Criticism and Introductory Articles

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 (removed)

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)


Internet Texts, Bibliography, Web Sites

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

For a list of Robert Louis Stevenson's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, search engine that provides links to full texts on the internet

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


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