Robert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered

William B. Jones, Jr., is the author of Petit Jean: A Wilderness Adventure; the editor of Robert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered: New Critical Perspectives; and a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies and Icons of the American Comic Book. He has written introductions for more than 100 reissued titles in the revived Classics Illustrated and related series.

Table of Contents



Preface    



CRITICAL OVERVIEWS

The Eyeball of the Dawn: Can We Trust Stevenson’s Imagination?     

The Art of Writing and the Pleasure of Reading: Stevenson as Theorist and Popular Author   

Reanimating Stevenson’s Corpus     

Stevenson and Islands: Scotland and the South Pacific    



APPROACHES TO DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

Closer Than a Wife: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll’s Significant Other    

The Hand of Hyde    

Engineering Influences on Jekyll and Hyde    



ESSAYS ON OTHER WORKS

The Damned Thing in Boards and a Ticket on Its Behind: An Inland Voyage  

A World Made for Liars: Stevenson’s Dynamiter and the Death of the Real   

Scottish Gothic: Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae, and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner    

Writing Towards Home: The Landscape of A Child’s Garden of Verses   

Helter-Skeltery: Stevenson and Theatre     

Prayers at Sunset    



BIOGRAPHY, POPULAR CULTURE, AND PERSONAL RESPONSE

The Squire and the Gamekeeper: RLS and Miss Adelaide Boodle     

Forty-Eight Pages and Speech Balloons: Robert Louis Stevenson in Classics Illustrated  

Discovering Mr. Stevenson: A Personal Chronicle    



Index