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The RLS Archive is an ongoing scholarly resource, offering up-to-date, rigorous bibliographies on Robert Louis Stevenson. Professor Richard Dury of the University of Bergamo founded the site in December of 1996. Here you can find detailed bibliographic listings on the life, works, and evolutions in popular culture on RLS.
Here you will find an “in the footsteps of RLS” bibliography – a list of works about Stevenson topography and revisiting places associated with Stevenson. For example, you can find books about following the route RLS took in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879). You can also find books about following the fictional route his character David Balfour followed in Kidnapped (1886).
On the RLS Archive you will also find: a catalogue of photos of RLS (detailing the year the photo was taken, a brief description of the photo, and where the photo is held – for example, the Writers’ Museum [The Edinburgh Museums Service], or the Beinecke Library, Yale).
Below you will find a menu and brief description of some of the other resources in the RLS Archive: editions bibliographies, bibliographies about RLS’s life (representations), critical works bibliographies and derivative works bibliographies.
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Critical Works on Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Early Studies | Studies 1990-1993 | Studies 1994-1997 | Studies 1998-2001 | Recent Studies | Online Studies
Critical Reception
In the Critical Works section of the RLS Archive, you will find bibliographies of scholarly work on Stevenson. This section will be particularly helpful for those researching Stevenson and his writing. Here you will find a list of Critical Writing on RLS, complete with a brief summary for each entry. You will also find a list of Online Studies of Stevenson and his work. Finally, you will find information about Stevenson’s Critical Reception, from his own lifetime to the present, including other writers’ opinions about RLS.
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Editions of Robert Louis Stevenson's Works |
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Collected Editions | Recent Editions | UK Editions 1921-1960 | Illustrated Editions | Collectors List
Catalogues
Translations: French Editions | German Editions | Italian Editions | Spanish Editions
In the Editions section of the RLS Archive you will find lists of editions of RLS’s works. This includes Collected Editions, Recent Editions of his work, Editions Published in the UK from 1921-1960 and Illustrated Editions. On the Translations page you can find lists of RLS’s works translated into French, Italian, German and Spanish. You will also find a Collector’s List of editions: Tiger books compiles a yearly catalogue of first and early limited editions of RLS’s works that would interest serious collectors. Furthermore, you will find a list of Stevenson catalogues - these published bibliographies list editions of RLS's works.
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Derivative Works on Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Films | Drama | Music | Sequels Prequels Retellings | Audio and Radio Adaptations
Comic Books and Graphic Novels | References to Stevensons work in works of fiction | Other Derivative Art
Spurious Quotations | Unclassified Artefacts
The Derivative Works Section of the RLS Archive lists Films, Drama and Music that have all been inspired by Stevenson’s work. For example, you can find film versions of Jekyll and Hyde (1886), stage versions of Treasure Island (1883) and musical settings for A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885).
You will also find a list of Sequels and Prequels to and Retellings of Stevenson works, and a list of Comic books and Graphic novels adapted from RLS’s writing. You can find a bibliography of Audio & Radio Adaptations of Stevenson’s works and also a list of References to Stevenson’s work in Works of Fiction. You will find a listing called Other Derivative Art, which lists sculptures, woodcuts, painting etc. of Stevenson, as well as illustrations of his works.
In the page called “Spurious Quotations” you can find information about quotes wrongly attributed to Stevenson. Finally, the Unclassified Artefacts page lists games, pubs, etc., that were inspired by Stevenson’s writing.
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