Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries

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Preface ix Introduction xiii   and   List of Abbreviations xxix      The Pleasures of Reading, Writing, and Popular Culture Stevenson, Morris, and the Value of Idleness    Living in a Book: RLS as an Engaged Reader  . .  The Four Boundary-Crossings of R. L. Stevenson, Novelist and Anthropologist    Stevenson and the (Un)familiar: The Aesthetics of Late-Nineteenth-Century Biography            The Greenhouse vs. the Glasshouse: Stevenson’s Stories as Textual Matrices    Trading Texts: Negotiations of the Professional and the Popular in the Case of Treasure Island    Stevenson and Popular Entertainment    Tontines, Tontine Insurance, and Commercial Culture: Stevenson and Osbourne’s The Wrong Box          Scotland and the South Seas The Master of Ballantrae, or The Writing of Frost and Stone  -  Quarreling with the Father    Figures in a Landscape: Scott, Stevenson, and Routes to the Past    Burking the Scottish Body: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Resurrection Men   - Stevenson’s Unfinished Autopsy of the Other   .  Voices of the Scottish Empire    Stevenson and the Property of Language: Narrative, Value, Modernity   . .  Light, Darkness, and Shadow: Stevenson in the South Seas   .  vi Contents Violence in the South Seas: Stevenson, the Eye, and Desire    Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: The South Seas from Journal to Fiction   .         Evolutionary Psychology, Masculinity, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Romance, and Evolutionary Psychology    Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Evolution: Crossing the Boundaries between Ideas and Art   .  Crossing the Bounds of Single Identity: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and a Paper in a French Scientific Journal    “City of Dreadful Night”: Stevenson’s Gothic London    Pious Works: Aesthetics, Ethics, and the Modern Individual in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde   .  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A “Men’s Narrative” of Hysteria and Containment   .  Consumerism and Stevenson’s Misfit Masculinities    “Markheim” and the Shadow of the Other     Contents vii       Textual and Cultural Crossings Masters of the Hovering Life: Robert Musil and R. L. Stevenson    Whitman and Thoreau as Literary Stowaways in Stevenson’s American Writings   .  The Pirate Chief in Salgari, Stevenson, and Calvino     Murder by Suggestion: El sueño de los héroes andThe Master of Ballantrae    Contributors  Index of Stevenson’s Works  General Index  viii Contents ...