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H = Reprinted entiely or in part in A. Hammerton (ed.) (1910). Stevensoniana. An anecdotal life and appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh: John Grant.
TH= In Tom Hubbard (2008). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’. In Tom Hubbard, Rikky Rooksby and Edward Wakeling (eds.) Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI: Carroll, Stevenson and Swinburne by their Contemporaries. 3 vols. Pickering & Chatto.
n.d.
Blanch, Josephine: Story of a friendship: a California reminiscence of RLS and his friend Jules Simoneau. [Saranac Lake, Stevenbson Cottage collection]
Brown, Lawrason. ‘Stevenson and Saranac’. [Essay by a charter member of the Stevenson Society of America (Dr. Brown was second only to Dr. Trudeau in the treatment and understanding of Tuberculosis. His home at …Main St. was the scene in 1887 of the dinner conversation between R.L.S. and Libby Custer, the widow of General Custer. Stevenson Cottage, Saranac Lake]
Chapman, Livingston, ‘Stevenson at Saranac Lake’. [Essay by the Stevenson Society of America secretary. Stevenson Cottage, Saranac Lake]
1879
Anon. (1879). ‘Review of
1885
Archer, William Robert (1885), Robert Louis Stevenson: his style and thought’. Time (Nov.). [Praises Stevenson’s ‘lightness of touch’]
1887
Archer, William (1887). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson at ‘Skerryvore’. Critic ***. TH
Kirk, Sophia (1887). "Robert Louis Stevenson". Atlantic Monthly 60 (Dec 1887) : 747-55. TH
[praises "the incomparable Dynamiter" (748); "perhaps somethng may be done... towards tracing certain qualities that pervade them [S's works], and finding the htrad of connection between a set of volumes which, from
their very slenderness and variety of topic, hang but loosely together"]
Oliphant, Margaret (1887). ‘Review of Underwoods’. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine ***. TH
1888
James, Henry (1888), ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, Century Magazine (April 1888). Reprinted in Partial Portraits, 1888. TH
Barrie, J.M. (1888). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’. British Weekly (2
Nov.). Repr. In An
Bentzon, Thérèse. (1888), 'Le roman étrange en Angleterre: Robert Louis Stevenson', Revue des deux mondes (1.4.1888): 550-581.
Barrie, J.M. (1888). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’. British Weekly (2
Nov.). Repr. In An
Schwob, Marcel (1888), ‘Robert Louis
Stevenson’, Le Phare de la Loire (27.8.1888)
[begins: ‘Après la forte génération des Thackeray..’].
1890
Doyle, Arthur Conan (1890), 'Mr Stevenson's Methods in Fiction'. National Review (Jan.).
Schwob, Marcel (1890), ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, L’Evénement (11
octobre 1890).
[begins : 'Je me souviens de la nuit..'].
1891
Barrie, J.M. (1888). "Robert Louis Stevenson". British Weekly (2 Nov.). Repr. In An Edinburgh Eleven. Pencil Portraits from College Life. London/New York: J.A. Smith/Lovell, Coryell & Co. 1889. TH
Lang, Andrew (1891). ‘Mr Stevenson’s Works’. Essays in Little. London: Henry and Co.
‘Robert Louis Stevenson on Realism and Idealism’, Littell’s Living Age (1891). TH
1892
Glardon, Auguste (1892). ‘A travers la littérature anglaise contemporaine: Les romans’. Bibliothèque universelle et revue suisse [Lausanne] 54 : 532-535 and 55 : 516-520, 526-527, 538-547.
Purcell, Edward (1892). "The Genius of Stevenson". Bookman (May 1892).
[praises the dilettantism and elegant attractiveness of S's personality; in the same number of Bookman Purcell published the poem "To Prospero in Samoa" (under his pseudonym of "Y.Y."; article and poem reprinted in Robert Louis Stevenson:
The Man and His Work, Bookman extra number 1913: 11-16 and 128]
Walkley, Arthur Bingham (1892). Playhouse Impressions. London: T. Fisher Unwin.
1893
Crockett, S. R. (1893). ‘The Apprenticeship of Robert Louis Stevenson’. Bookman (March).
Gosse, Edmund (1893). In Questions at Issue. London: Heinemann
Johnson, Lionel (1893). ‘Review of Island Nights Entertainments’. The Academy ***. TH
1894
Anon. (1894). ‘***’. London
Spectator (Aug. 11).
[‘His greatest
contribution to literature is the boy who acts the part of a hero, but yet is
at the same time always a thorough boy and a real boy,--and by this we do not
mean an angelic person of the choirboy order, but that curious mixture of
irresponsibility and shrewdness, boldness and shyness, waywardness and hard
common sense, which constitutes the true boy’.]
Gwynn, Stephen (1894). ‘Mr. Robert
Louis Stevenson. A Critical Study’. Fortnightly Review 56 (1 Dec. 1894):
776-792.
[This article and Gwyn
(1898) are ‘two fine essays ‘ in which ‘Gwynn acknowledged the importance of
the Pacific fiction, in terms both of the subject matter… and of the new
narrative style’, an exception to the critical silence about the South Seas
fiction in the early surveys of S’s achievement (Roslyn Jolly (1996).
‘Introduction’. Robert Louis Stevenson. South Seas Fiction. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, p. xxxi).]
Jacobs, Joseph (1894). "Mr Robert Louis Stevenson". The Athenaeum 22 (December 1894): 863-4.
Anon. (1895). "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson". The Edinburgh Review (July 1895). H
Schwob, Marcel (1894), ‘Robert
Louis Stevenson’, La Revue hebdomadaire (2 juin 1894) ; also
(translated) in The New Review 12 (Feb. 1895): 153-170; also in Marcel
Schwob (1896). Spicilège. Paris: Mercure de France.
[begins : 'Je me souviens clairement…'].
Anon. (1894), ‘***’, Critic [New York] (Dec. 1894).
1895
Anon. (1895), ‘The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson’, Edinburgh Review (July 1895).
Anon. (1895). ‘***’. Good Words (spring 1895).
[Includes a
description of Swanston.]
Archer, William (1895), ‘In Memoriam: R.L.S.’, New Review (January 1895). TH
Churchill, W. (1895). ‘Stevenson in the South Seas’. McClure’s Magazine (Feb.).
Copeland, Charles Townsend (1895). "Robert Louis Stevenson". Atlantic Monthly (April 1895): 537-46. TH
[obituary tribute and overview of his works]
Glardon, Auguste (1895). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’. Bibliothèque universelle et revue suisse [Lausanne] 66: 493-521 and 67: 80-111.
[commends
‘Markheim’; gives a long exposition of ‘The Lantern Bearers’; Falesà is a work
of of realism ‘féroce et pourtant décent’. ‘A leitmotiv in Glardon’s essays is
a favourable comparison of Scottish culture with French’ (Hubbard)]
Gosse, Edmund (1895). ‘Personal Memories of Robert Louis Stevenson’, The Century ***. TH
J.A. [Anne Jenkin] (1895). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’. Edinburgh Academy Chronicle (March).
Lang, Andrew (1895). "The Late Mr. R. L. Stevenson", Illustrated London News, 5 Jan. 1895.
Lang, Andrew (1895). "Robert Louis Stevenson", Longman’s Magazine, Feb. 1895.
Lang, Andrew (1895). ‘Recollections
of Robert Louis Stevenson’, North American Review, Feb. 1895. Repr. In Adventures
Among Books. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1905.
[‘I have known no man
in whom the pre-eminently manly virtues of kindness, courage, sympathy,
generosity, helpfulness, were more beautifully conspicuous than in Mr.
Stevenson, none so much loved--it is not too strong a word--by so many and so
various people.’]
Lee, Vernon [Violet Paget] (1895). ‘***’ [comments on Catriona]. Contemporary Review (Oct. 1911).
Raleigh, Walter (1895). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’. [Lecture at the Royal Institution May 17, 1895.] London: Arnold
Schwob, Marcel (1895). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’. The New Review 12 (Feb. 1895): 153-170. See Schwob (1894). TH
Shaw, George Bernard (1895). ‘Macaire’ [review]. Saturday Review (8 June). Also Shaw, George Bernard (1897). ‘Admiral Guinea’ [review]. Saturday Review (4 Dec.). Both reprinted with other comments in Shaw, George Bernard (1932). Our Theatre in the Nineties, vols. 1 and 3.
Van Rensselaer, M. G. (1895), ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and his Writings’, Century Magazine (Nov. 1895). TH
1896
Barrie, J.M. (1896). "R.L.S.". In Margarat Ogilvie. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
[ch. 7; on how his mother was fascinated by Treasure Island]
Brown,
Dawson, W. J. (1896). ‘***’. The
Bookman(Sept.).
[‘it will be a painful
surprise to me if coming generations do not recognize his work as one of the
chief treasures of our literature, and the man himself as one of the most
original, rare, and entirely lovable men of genius of this or of any time’]
Gosse, Edmund (1896). In Critical
Kit-Kats.
[‘He became the most
exquisite English writer of his generation; yet those who lived close to him
are apt to think less of this than of the fact that he was the most unselfish
and the most lovable of human beings’]
Kittredge, G. L. (1896). ‘***’. The Nation (January 9).
Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas
(1896), ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, Adventures in Criticism,
Lord Rosebery, ‘Robert Louis
Stevenson’, transcript of speech given at
de Wyzewa, Téodor (1896). [essay on Weir of Hermiston]. Revue des deux mondes 136 : 216-225
1897
Symonds, Arthur (1897). In Studies
in Two Literatures.
Moore, Gorge (1897). ‘***’ [review
of The Secret Rose by W.B. Yeats]. Daily Chronicle (April 24
1897).
[Early revisionist
attack]
Peck, Harry Thurston (1897). ***
(perhaps in the Bookman, of which he was the editor).
[‘I cannot help
feeling that these eulogies of Mr. Stevenson are going too far’; he thinks that
they are a way of putting into the shadow writers of ‘amorous modern fiction’
like Wilde, Hardy, Moore and Kipling.]
Strachey, John St. Loe (1897). ‘A Study of Louis Stevenson’.
In From Grave to Gay.
[Starts: ‘What is it
that makes Mr. Stevenson's literary work never wholly satisfying?’]
1898
Black,
Margaret Moyes (1898). Robert Louis
Stevenson.
[Contents: Heredity
and Antecedents; Childhood; Boyhood and College Days; As I First Knew Him; Him
Home Life; His Choice of a Literary Life and His Early Books; Wandering in
Search of Health; His Marriage and Friendships; His Essays and Verses; His
Stories; His Life in Samoa; His Death; and His Life-Work.]
Burgess, Gelett (1898). ‘An Interview with Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson’. Bookman ***. TH
Chapman, John Jay (1898). ‘Robert
Louis Stevenson’. In Emerson and other Essays.
[Accuses Stevenson of being imitative]
Gwynn, Stephen (1898). ‘The Posthumous Works of Robert Louis Stevenson’. Fortnightly Review o.s. 69: 561-75.
[Praises the
Jacobs, Joseph (1894). ‘Mr Robert Louis Stevenson’. The Athenaeum 22 (December 1894): 863-4.
1899
Bosdari, Alessandro De (1899). ‘Roberto Luigi Stevenson’. Nuova Antologia [di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti], vol. IV. Also (as ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’) in Studi di letterature straniere. Bologna: Zanichelli, 1929. 73-93.
[Written because of ‘la grande notorietà di lui nel mondo letterario anglo-americano, e dell’interessamento che ne va nascendo’ (91). Refers to Ragazzoni’s 1899 article, which is therefore earlier; cites the letters being published in Scribner’s Magazine (Dec. 1898-Nov. 1899), quotes from these and quotes and refers to many works by S; in Underwoods there are poems that remind one of Lamartine and De Musset; if poetry is invention and imagination, then S is a poet in New Arab., JH, ‘Merry Men’; in his fantasy he is similar to Hoffman and Poe; his adventure romances leave me ‘annoiato e disilluso’, but praises details, including ‘la grande scena del duello’ in Bal. (89), finds Anthony Hope ‘più rapido, più incuisivo, più poeta dello Stevenson’; Wrecker, Ebb.Tide; Weir ‘A me lascò un senso d’imperfezione e di peso’. For ‘diletto’ recommends letters, essays and short stories; a model of ‘prosa flessibile, varia, appropriata, perfetta’; says that critics have coined the word ‘Stevensonism’; ends with transl qu from ‘Letter to a Young Gentleman’.]
Cornford, L[eslie] Cope (1899). Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh/London:
Blackwood (also
[acknowledges ‘the help which Mr Henley has given me in the making of this essay towards a just appreciation of his old comrade.’]
de Wyzewa, Téodor (1896). [review of S’s correspondence]. Revue des deux mondes 156: 921-932.
Ragazzoni, Ernesto. (1899). ‘Letterati contemporanei: Robert Louis Stevenson’. Emporium 9 (aprile 1899): 278-300.
[R was a poet and journalist, studied and transl. esp. Poe. Interesting survey of life and works and style, with long quotations from the works, prob. seen Edin. Ed. because he translates passages from ‘My First Book’ which was collected for the first time there; uses essays to illustrate points about his other texts; translates two fables; puts ‘pleasure’ as the keynote of his style. The Istituto di Arti Grafiche in Bergamo was the first Italian publisher to equip itself with typographic apparatus for the printing of photographs on the same page as graphics and texts; monthly magazine Emporium (founded 1895) in imitation of the The Studio ‘fino alla I guerra mondiale fu la più vivace e aperta rivista italiana, in rapporto con la cultura europea’]
Schuyler,
1900
Anonymous (1900). "Stevenson From a New Point of View". Atlantic Monthly (March 1900): 429-31.
[In the "Contributors Club" section; report of an evening at a literary society in which S is condemned for his lack of religious and moral sentiments]
Hadden, J Cuthbert (1900). ‘Robert
Louis Stevenson and Music’,
Le Gallienne, Richard (1900).
‘Stevenson Dethroned’. In Sleeping Beauty and Other Prose Fancies.
[Defends S. against Moore and Strachey]
Hadden, J Cuthbert (1900). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and Music’,
James, Henry (1900). 'The Letters
of Robert Louis Stevenson' [review of Letters To His Family And Friends
ed S. Colvin (1899)]. North American Review (Jan ). Repr. in Notes on
Novelists.
[‘The finest papers in
Across the Plains, in Memories and Portraits and in Virginibus
Puerisque, stout of substance and supremely silver of speech, have both a
nobleness and a nearness that place them, for perfection and roundness, above
his fictions, and that also may remind a vulgarized generation of what, even
under its nose, English prose can be.]
Wallace, William (1900). "The Life and Limitations of Stevenson". Scottish Review (Jan.): 13-35. TH
[Review of Colvin's Letters to His Family and Friends (1899), also Cornford (1899), Black (1896) and Simpson (1898; overviews his life, looks forward to Balfour's biography; identifies "cameraderie" as a leading characteristic and
quotes to witne4sses on the style of his conversation; the "limitations" are not part of a debunking operation, but concern the lack of good female protagonists and the lack of a major novel]
1901
Anon. (1901). ‘The Book of the Month: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Life’. The Review of Reviews ***. TH
Baildon, H. Bellyse (1901). Robert Louis Stevenson. A Life Study in Criticism. London: Chatto & Windus.
[Baildon knew RLS at University; ch II-IV are biographical, the rest appraises his achivement in eight literary genres]
Balfour, Graham (1901). The
Life of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Baildon, H. Bellyse (1901). Robert
Louis Stevenson: A Life Study in Criticism.
Genung, John Franklin (1901). Stevenson's Attitude to Life: With
Henley, W E (1901). ‘Robert Louis
Stevenson’,
Blantyre Simpson, Eve (1901).‘Robert Louis Stevenson’s Hills of Home’. Chambers Journal (Feb. 1901).
[by the sister of Sir Walter Simpson]
Vallotton, Félix (1901). ‘Un portrait : R. L. Stevenson’. La Revue Blanche 24 (série parisienne) N. 183 (15.1.1901).
1902
Chesterton, G. K. and William Robertson Nicoll (1902). Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Hodder & Stoughton (The Bookman Booklets, No. 2). Also published New York: James Pott, 1906
[the 1902 edition has no author's name on the title page but is often catalogued under Nicoll; the 1906 US edition has Chesterton and Nicoll on the title page; includes "The Personality and Style of Robert Louis Stevenson" by Nicoll (1-8) and "The Characteristics of Robert Louis Stevenson" by Chesterton (9-34), a poem "Home from the Hill" by Nicoll (35)
and a Biographical Note (36-40); Chesterton's text begins "All things and all men are underrated"]
Chesterton, G. K. (1902). "Stevenson". In Twelve Types. London: Arthur L. Humphreys.
[a review of H. Bellyse Baildon (1901). Robert Louis Stevenson: A Life Study in Criticism; begins "A recent incident has finally convinced us that Stevenson was, as we suspected, a great man"]
Pinero, Arthur Wing (1902).
‘Robert Louis Stevenson: the Dramatist’. ***: privately printed. Repr. as Stevenson as a Dramatist. Publications of Dram. Mus. of
Stephen, Leslie (1902). "Robert Louis Stevenson". National Review 38 (Jan. 1902). Repr. in Leslie Stephen (1902). Studies of a Biographer, vol 4. London: Duckworth. 206-46.
[ciritical appreciation]
Vance, Hiram Albert (1902), 'Robert Louis Stevenson'. The Sewanee Review 10ii (Apr 1902): 223-233.
[Contrasts the ‘timid, half-view of life’ in Prince
Otto with the transformed art that followed his move to the
Whiting, Marie Louise (1902), 'Robert Louis Stevenson: the Man in his 'Life' and 'Letters''. Sewanee Review 10iv (Oct 1902): 385-405.
[Review of Balfour’s biography and Letters; ‘his personality casts a spell’ (345), ‘how lovable must this man have been!’ (400)]
1903
Hammerton, J.A. (ed.) (1903). Stevensoniana:
An Anecdotal Life and Appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Kelman, John, Jr (1903). The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh/London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier.
1904
Sharp, William (1904). ‘The Country of Stevenson’, Literary Geography ***. TH
Symonds, J. Aldington (1904). Studies in Prose and Verse.
1905
Japp, Alexander H. (1905). Robert
Louis Stevenson: A record, An Estimate and a Memorial.
Johnstone, Arthur (1905). Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific ***. TH (excerpts)
Wyzewa, Téodor de (1905). ‘Un livre nouveau de Robert Stevenson’. Revue des deux mondes 28 : 457-468.
[Review and discussion of Essays of Travel (1905). De W. was ‘one of the leading literary-journalistic gurus of the Symbolist movement’ (Hubbard). He regrets ‘qu’aucune traduction ne puisse rendre la grâce de son style, la savante simplicité de ses expressions, et ce rythme et cette musique qui, jusque dans ses moindres billets, nous ravissent comme l’harmonieux écho d’une âme de poète.’ Later in this essay, though, he offers a useful summing-up of the Dostoevsky-Stevenson pedigree: ‘[…] car si les magnifiques coquins des romans de Stevenson, les héros du Reflux [The Ebb-Tide] ou du Maître de Ballantrae, sont assurément d’une autre race que les Rogojine et les Karamazof, le tréfonds humain de leurs âmes n’en demeure pas moins étrangement pareil, avec son mélange de grandeur et de vice, d’innocence naïve et de dépravation.’ (Hubbard)]
1906
Sypherd, Wilbur Owen (1906). 'Robert Louis Stevenson' [public lecture]. New
Century Club, Newark, Delaware (Teachers at Institute, (November 28 1906), and
New Century Club, Dover, Delaware (April 9 1907). Autograph with corrections
and revisions. (Univ. Delaware LIbrary, Spec. Coll.Wilbur Owen Sypherd Papers,
Box 2, F20, 27 pp.).
1908
Gosse, Edmund (1908). Bibliographical Notes on the Writings of Robert
Louis Stevenson.
1909
Baker, Franklin T. (1909). ‘Critical Opinions’. In Stevenson, Robert
Louis (ed. Franklin T. Baker)
[A
collection of opinions on Stevenson and his art, in particular on
1909
Burton, Richard (1909). ‘Stevenson’s Prayer Book’. North American Review 199.vi (June, 1909): 869-76.
1910
Beach, Joseph Warren (1910). ‘The Source of Stevenson’s Bottle Imp’. Modern Language Notes 25 (Jan. 1910): 12-18.
1911
Lee,
Mackay, David. N. (1911). The Appin Murder: The Historial Basis of "Kidnapped" and "Catriona". Edinburgh: Hodge.
1912
Webster, Alex (1912). R.L. Stevenson and Henry Drummond.
Catton, Robert (1912). ‘R.L.S.’ [Essay written for the Scottish Thistle club of Honolulu, and read on 6/28/1912 by its author. Catton befriended Stevenson in Hawaii in 1893. Stevenson Cottage, Saranac Lake]
1913
Colvin,
Maclean, Lauchlan (1913). The Hills of Home. Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis.
[Nine chapters by Maclean followed by the four 'Pentland essays' by RLS, Maclean's chapters are mainly a study or RLS's style, Scottish world-view, as an essayist etc.--not an in-the-footsteps work]
Munro, Neil (1913). ‘Stevenson: the Man and his Work’, The Bookman ***. TH
Rivière, Jacques (1913). ‘Le roman d’aventures’. NRF (La Nouvelle Revue Française) mai-juin-jullet 1913.
Watt, Francis (1913). R.L.S. London/New York: Methuen & Co. Ltd/Macmillan & Co.
[basically a study of RLS as a writer; much on the Scottish background ]
1914
Swinnerton, Frank A. (1914). Robert Louis Stevenson: A Critical Study. London/New York: Martin Secker/George H. Doran (n.d.).
[a critical study: a condemnation of S as a writer (though he exempts the short stories)]
1915
Hamilton, Clayton (1915). On the Trail of Stevenson. Garden City, NY/ London: Doubleday, Page & Company/ Hodder & Stoughton.
[though mainly a biography, this does contain sections of critical evaluation, e.g. pp 119-123 where he discusses the maning of S's declaration of 'War on the optic nerve']]
Matthews, Brander (1915). ‘A Moral from a Toy Theatre’. Scribner’s
Magazine (Oct. 1915). Repr. in Brander Matthews (1916). A Book About the
Theater.
[Discusses RLS as a playwright and the influence of the toy theater. The version in the volume is dated ‘1914’.]
1916
Cruse, Amy (1915). Robert Louis Stevenson. London/New York: Harrap/Frederick A. Stokes Co.
[biography, with "Epilogue: The Writer and the Man" evaluating hius achievement]
Knowlton, Edgar. C. (1916). ‘A Russian Influence on Stevenson’. Modern Philology 15 (Dec. 1916): 449-454. TH
Rice, Richard Ashley (1916). Robert Louis Stevenson: How to Know Him. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. [a study of RLS; presented in ch. 1 as "the companiable author"; quotes the whole chapter of the duel in The Master of Ballantrae as "the finest passage in Stevenson"; replies to the critics, Chapman 1898 et al., who had accused Stevenson of being merely imitative of others]
[replies to the critics, Chapman 1898 et al., who had accused Stevenson of being merely imitative of others]
1917
Aydelotte, Frank (1917.) ‘Robert Louis Stevenson Darkening Counsel’. In The Oxford Stamp and Other Essays: Articles from the Educational Creed of an American Oxonian. New York: Oxford University Press.
[says that S's recommendation of imitation in order to learn writing first published in The English Journal 1912; replies to the critics, Chapman 1898 et al., who had accused Stevenson of being merely imitative of others; says that the common practice of imitating Stevenson in writing classes
is not good, that students should read widely as Stevenson did]
Chalmers, Stephen (1917). Enchanted cigarettes, or Stevenson Stories that Might Have Been. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917.
[‘read before the Stevenson Society at its first annual meeting held at Saranac Lake, New York, October 28, 1916’. Stephen Chalmers, a novelist and short-story writer, had a life-long admiration for the life and works of countryman, Robert Louis Stevenson]
1918
Lansing, R.R. 81918). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’s French Reading as Shown in his Correspondence’. Poet Lore (March 1918).
1919
Brown, George E. (1919). A Book of R.L.S.: Works, Travels, Friends and Commentators New York/London: Charles Scribner's Sons/Methuen & Co.
[alphabetical guide to S's worksin alphabetical order, with additional entries on friends and family]
1920
Bay, J[ens] Christian (1920). Echoes of Robert Louis Stevenson. Chicago Walter M. Hills.
[carefully-prepared small volume (100 pp) with woodcut decorations by Axel T. Bay and facsimiles of letters; mainly about S's style]
Snyder, Alice D. (1920). ‘Paradoxes and Antitheses in Stevenson’s Essays’. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 19iv: 540-559.
1921
Robertson, S. (1921). ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Robert Louis Stevenson’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology **: ***
1922
Loudon, K. M. (1922). '"East and West: Tagore and Stevenson". In Two Mystic Poets and Other Essays. Oxford: Blackwell.
[affinities and possible influences of Stevenson on Tagore]
Saint Quintin, Richard Guy (1922).
Notes on Stevenson’s Kidnapped.
Van Dyke, Henry (1922). "An Adventurer in a Velvet Jacket". Scribner's Magazine 72 (Aug 1922): 171-79. Repr. in Companionable Books. New York/London: Scribner's/Hodder & Stoughton. AO
[short study with some attention to style and theories of literature]
1924
Anon. (1924). ‘Stevenson Unwhitewashed: Was his Story of Jekyll and Hyde Enacted in Real Life?’. Current Opinion ***. TH
Beisiegel, Mary Katherine Augusta (1924). Notes on Stevenson’s
Virginibus Puerisque.
Barnett, David (1924). Stevenson study – Treasure Island. Edinburgh: David McDonald. [Stevenson’s Study?]
1925
Beisiegel, Mary Katherine Augusta
(1925). Notes on Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
Brecht, Berthold (1925). ‘Glossen zu Stevenson’. Berliner Borsen-Courier (May, 1925).
[The optics of the movies had earlier been realized in narrative literature, for example by Rimbaud and Stevenson. He admires The Master of Ballantrae is ‘the extra- ordinary example of a novel of adventure in which the sympathy of the reader for the adventurer himself (a sympathy which is the exclusive life blood of all other adventure novels) is only achieved slowly and with an effort.’]
Clark, Evert Mordecai (1924). "The Kinship of Hazlitt and Stevenson". Texas Studies in English 4: 97-114.
Douglas, George (ed.) (1925). A
cadger's creel: the book of the Robert Louis Stevenson club bazaar.
[Essays by various authors, mostly about Stevenson. With the first appearance in print of a 16-line fragment by Robert Louis Stevenson. Signed by four contributors including Hugh Walpole.]
1926
Joad, C.E.M. (1926). The
Bookmark.
Neil Munro (1926). ‘Ballantrae’.
In Atlantic
Bigelow, Poultney (1926). ‘Stevenson’. Handwritten speech delivered at
the 1926 Annual Meeting of Stevenson Society of North America.
[Saranac Lake, Stevenson Cottage collection. Bigelow,
explorer and former president of the Stevenson Society of America, befriended
RLS in Samoa.]
1927
Chesterton, G. K. (1927). Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Hodder & Stoughton
[a critical study in ten chapters; the first chapter is "The Myth of Stevenson" in which he defends S from his recent detractors]
Dale, Dorothy Frances (1927). A
Commentary & Questionnaire on An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey.
1928
Robinson, Frederic William (1928).
A Commentary & Questionnaire on The Black Arrow.
1929
Mackay, Eneas (1929). Robert Louis Stevenson and the Scottish Highlanders. Stirling: David B. Morris
[Explores how S’s interest in the Appin murder may have resulted from stories circulating around the Bridge of Allan and the area around Stirling, where S spent time in his youth]
Morris, David Buchan (1929). Robert
Louis Stevenson and the Scottish Highlanders. [With special reference to
“Kidnapped” and ’Catriona.”].
1931
Muir, Edwin (1931). "Robert Louis Stevenson". Modern Scot (Autumn 1931).
1937
Behrend, Fritz (1937). Robert Louis Stevenson. Berlin: Wendt. 27 pp.
[A positive overview of Stevenson’s works (no hint of contemporary Anglo-American criticisms).
Compares Stevenson to Theodor Fontane in his development from Romantic to Realist.]
1938
Hersey, Frank
Wilson Cheney (1938). Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped. Followed by Who
Killed the Red Fox? being the true account of the famous murder mystery in
“Kidnapped,” based on the records of the trial, together with the solution of
the murder now revealed for the first time.
1943
Haber, Tom B. (1943). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and
1947
Daiches, David (1947). Robert Louis Stevenson: A Revaluation. Glasgow/Norfolk,
[the
1948
Garrod, H.W. (1948). ‘The Poetry
of R.L. Stevenson’. Essays Presented to Herbert Grierson.
1950
Hayes-McCoy, G A (1950). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and the Irish Question’, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 39 (No. 154, Jun.): 130-140. TH
1951
Daiches, David (1951). Stevenson
and the Art of Fiction.
[a Frances Bergen Memorial Lecture delivered in the Yale University Library 18th May 1951 on the occasion of the opening of the Beinecke Library].
1955
Booth, Bradford A. (1955). ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’. Victorian Newsletters 8 (Autumn 1955): 3.
Cazamian, M.L. (1955). ‘R.L.
Stevenson’. Le roman et les idées
en Angleterre. III : Les doctrines d’action et d’aventure.
1957
Race, Herbert (1957). Robert
Louis Stevenson: Travels with a Donkey in the
1961
Fiedler, Leslie A. (1961). ‘The
Master of Ballantrae’. In Austin Wright (ed.). Victorian Literature:
Modern Essays in Criticism.
1964
Kiely, Robert (1964). Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP.
[Identifies a shift in his writings from romanticism to realism.]
Finney, Ben (1964). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’s Tahitian Poems’. Journal de la Société des océanistes 20: 92-96.
Also at http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jso_0300-953x_1964_num_20_20_1912 and as pdf
download from there.
[Stevenson’s Tahitian poems and his collection of material for a never-completed Tahitian section to The
South Seas.]
1966
Eigner, E. (1966). Robert Louis Stevenson and the Romantic Tradition. Princeton UP.
[‘still one of the best studies of the Scottish author’s writings’; does not identify a shift from romanticism to realism (cf. Kiele) (Niederhoff (2005: 320, 322)]
1968
Egan, Joseph J. (1968). ‘From History to Myth: A Symbolic reading of The Master of Ballantrae.’ SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 8 (1968): 699–710.
1971
Kirtley, Bacil F. (1971). ‘The Devious Genealogy of the “Bottle Imp” Plot’. Ameican Notes and Queries 9 (Jan. 1971): 67-70.
1974
Binding, P. (1974). Robert Louis Stevenson.
Cohen, Edward H. (1974). The Henley-Stevenson Quarrel. Gainsville: ***.
Saposnik, Irving S. (1974). Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Twayne.
1977
‘Dossier Robert Louis Stevenson’. Magazine littéraire 126 (juillet-août 1977) : 11-27.
[Chronologie ; textes de Jacques Goimard, Serge Gozlan, Francis Lacassin, Robert Louit et de Robert Louis Stevenson]
Lacassin, Francis (1977). ‘L’art de voyager avec ou sans âne’. Magazine littéraire 126 (juillet-août 1977) : 13-15.
1978
Greenacre, Phyllis (1978). 'Notes on Plagiarism: The Henley-Stevenson Quarrel'. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 26: 507-539.
Tinter, Adeline R. (1978). ‘James writes a boys’ story: “The Pupil” and R.L. Stevenson’s Adventure Books.’ Essays in Literature 5: 61-73.
1979
Fowler, Alistair (1979). ‘Parables
of Adventure: The Debatable Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson’. In Ian Campbell
(ed.). Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction: Critical Essays.
Swearingen, Roger (1979). ‘ “Essays on the Enjoyment of the World’: The Place of Travels with a Donkey in Stevenson’s Work and Literary Career’. Cahiers d’Etudes et de recherches victoriens et edouardiens 8 (April 1979) : 25-38.
1980
Calder, Jenni (1980). The Robert Louis Stevenson Companion. Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing
[collection of 8 essays concerning the life and work of Robert Louis Stevenson, by Calder, Gosse, Barrie etc.]
Swearingen, Roger G. (1980). The
Prose Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Guide.
1981
Calder, Jenni (ed.) (1981). Stevenson and Victorian Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP.
Furnas, J.C.
(1981). ‘Stevenson and Exile.’ In Stevenson and Victorian
Gifford,
King, Stephen (1981). ‘Tales of the Tarot’. In Danse Macabre, Everest House.
[In this book on horror and suspense films, television and fiction from 1950-80, King discusses four archetypes of horror (‘tarot cards’) which can be seen in all modern horror narratives: the Vampire (from Dracula), the Beast Within (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde) the Creature Without a Name (Frankenstein), and, to a lesser extent, the Ghost or the Bad Place (The Turn of the Screw).
This essay seems to be different from King’s Introduction to Frankenstein; Dracula; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Signet, 1978), where the term ‘tarot card’ is not used, and ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is not mentioned but Frankenstein, JH and Dracula are presented as archetypal modern horror stories. ]
Maixner, Paul (ed.) (1981). Robert
Louis Stevenson: the Critical Heritage.
1982
Carpenter, Kevin (1982). ‘R. L. Stevenson on the
Tadié, Jean-Yves (1982). ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’. In Le roman d’aventures, Paris, P.U.F.(Collection Ecriture), pp. 113-148.
1983
Geduld, Harry M. (1983). The Definitive “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” Companion. New York/London: Garland
Graham, Kenneth (1978). ‘Stevenson and Henry James: A Crossing’. In Noble (1978): 23-46.
Noble, Andew (ed) (1983). Robert Louis Stevenson. London/Totowa, NJ: Vision Press/Barnes & Noble.
[collection of essays]
Mills, Carol (1983). ‘The
Master of Ballantrae: An Experiment with Genre.’ In Andrew Noble (ed) Robert
Louis Stevenson.
Mochi, Giovanna (1983). ‘Stevenson e il “testo semplice” dell'avventura’. Paragone 34 (400): 9-43.
Wilson, James (1983). ‘Landscape with Figures’. Andrew Noble (ed) (1983). Robert Louis Stevenson. London/Totowa, NJ : Vision Press/Barnes & Noble.
1984
Hammond, J.R.
(1984). The Robert Louis Stevenson Companion.
1985
Gannon, Susan R.(1985). ‘Repetition and Meaning In Stevenson’s David Balfour Novels’. Studies in the Literary Imagination 18.ii: 21-34.
Naugrette, Jean-Pierre (1985). ‘Les aventures du roman: en dérivant de Ballantrae’. Critique 39 (No. 432): 365-378.
1986
Fisher, Margery (1986). The Bright Face of Danger.
[Explores the likenesses and differences between adventure stories written and published for adults and those written and published for children; pp. 390-403 ‘Treasure Island’.]
Hildenbrock, Aglaja (1986). Das andere ich. Künstlicher Mensch und Doppelgänger in der deutsch- und engliscsprachigen Literatur. Tübingen: Stauffenberg Verlag.
1987
Hillier, Robert I. (1987). ‘Folklore and Oral Tradition in Stevenson’s South Seas Narrative Poemsand Short Stories’. Scottish Literary Journal 14.ii : 32.47.
Naugrette, Jean-Pierre (1987). Robert Louis Stevenson: l’aventure et son double. Paris: Off Shore/Presses de l’Ecole Normale Supérieur.
Rather, L. J. (1987). ‘Mr. Hyde and the “Damned Juggernaut” ’. Synthesis. Bulletin du Comité national de littérature comparée de la République socialiste de Roumanie (Bukarest) 14 : 49-54.
1988
Veeder, William & Gordon Hirsch
(eds) (1988). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde after One Hundred Years.
Review: D. H. Stewart (1988). South Central Review 5.iv (Winter 1988): pp. 85-87.
Ormond, Leonee
(1988). ‘
1989
Albertazzi, Silvia (1989). ‘Stevenson e il suo pubblico: pretesto per una
divagazione sul lettore pre- e post-moderno’ [Stevenson and his public: pretext
for a digression on the pre- and post-modern reader].Problemi 84: 4-14. Repr. in Schulz-Buschhaus, Ulrich (ed.) (1991). Scrittore e Lettore nella
Società di Massa. Sociologia della letterature e Ricezione.
[Stevenson has two ideal readers: the child and the fellow-artist. Stevenson looks forward to a future postmodern reader, for example in the Preface to The Master of Ballantrae and in the text itself, Mackellar is what Adso is for Umberto Eco. Another postmodern characteristic of Stevenson is his awareness of the interdependence of texts on texts (e.g. ‘My First Book’). The child reader is the best accomplice for any writer: ready to be completely involved in the story; yet only an educated person can appreciate all the allusions. Both these readers are non-reverent, non-passive. Both are also re-read the same book.]
Hillier, Robert I. (1989). The South Seas Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson. New York : Peter Lang.
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