Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1890

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Biographical Materials

• Biography
• Biographical Materials (sitemap)
• Victorian Exiles: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Louis Stevenson
• Introduction: Chesterton on Stevenson's Style and Ideas
• A Robert Louis Stevenson Gallery — RLS, his family, and his homes
• Works

Literary Relations

• Aesthetes and Decadents (sitemap)

Cultural Contexts

• Stevenson on heroic culture, translation, book illustration, and Japanese art
• 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 (sitemap)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Victorian views of suicide
• Science and Technology (sitemap)

Theme and Technique

• Themes
• Allusions in Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

Genre and Mode

• Michael Gold's "The Fiend Breaks Loose: 'Shadows,' Doubles and Demons in London-based Fiction of the Late Nineteenth-century" (includes a discussion of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Bibliography and Related Web Resources

• Bibliography
• The Robert Louis Stevenson Website (Scotland)

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