Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1603291857

Although Robert Louis Stevenson was a late Victorian, his work--especially Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--still circulates energetically and internationally among popular and academic audiences and among young and old. Admired by Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jorge Luis Borges, Stevenson's fiction crosses the boundaries of genre and challenges narrow definitions of the modern and the postmodern. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides an introduction to the writer's life, a survey of the criticism of his work, and a variety of resources for the instructor. In part 2, "Approaches," thirty essays address such topics as Stevenson's dialogue with James about literature; his verse for children; his Scottish heritage; his wanderlust; his work as gothic fiction, as science fiction, as detective fiction; his critique of imperialism in the South Seas; his usefulness in the creative writing classroom; and how Stevenson encourages expansive thinking across texts, times, places, and lives.

A Child’s Garden of Verses

A Child’s Garden of Verses
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752423390

Reproduction of the original: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Thus I Lived with Words

Thus I Lived with Words
Author: Annette Federico
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1609385187

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) loved more than anything to talk about the craft of writing and the pleasure of reading good books. His dedication to the creative impulse manifests itself in the extraordinary amount of work he produced in virtually every literary genre—fiction, poetry, travel writing, and essays—in a short and peripatetic life. His letters, especially, confess his elation at the richness of words and the companionship of books, often projected against ill health and the shadow of his own mortality. Stevenson belonged to a newly commercial literary world, an era of mass readership, marketing, and celebrity. He had plenty of practical advice for writers who wanted to enter the profession: study the best authors, aim for simplicity, strike a keynote, work on your style. He also held that a writer should adhere to the truth and utter only what seems sincere to his or her heart and experience of the world. Writers have messages to deliver, whether the work is a tale of Highland adventure, a collection of children’s verse, or an essay on umbrellas. Stevenson believed that an author could do no better than to find the appetite for joy, the secret place of delight that is the hidden nucleus of most people’s lives. His remarks on how to write, on style and method, and on pleasure and moral purpose contain everything in literature and life that he cared most about—adventuring, persisting, finding out who you are, and learning to embrace “the romance of destiny.”

Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s

Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s
Author: Glenda Norquay
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2020-01-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1785272861

Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s investigates Stevenson and the geographies of his literary networks during the last years of his life and after his death. It profiles a series of figures who worked with Stevenson, negotiated his publications on both sides of the Atlantic, wrote for him or were inspired by him. Using archival material, correspondence, fiction and biographies it moves across these literary networks. It deploys the concept of ‘literary prosthetics’ to frame its analysis of gatekeepers, tastemakers, agents, collaborators and authorial surrogates in the transatlantic production of Stevenson’s writing. Case studies of understudied individuals and broader consideration of the networks they represent contribute to knowledge of transatlantic publishing in the 1890s, understanding of transatlantic culture, Stevenson studies, current interest in the workings of literary communities and in nineteenth-century mobility.

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of Collaboration

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of Collaboration
Author: Murfin Audrey Murfin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474452000

Explores Robert Louis Stevenson's collaborative processContains new readings of thirteen works by Robert Louis Stevenson, including several rarely discussedSheds light on connections between authorship, celebrity, the literary marketplace and the creative processSupported by extensive manuscript researchThis book investigates Stevenson's literary collaborations with family and friends as he travelled Scotland, America and the Pacific. With critical readings of both major and minor Stevenson texts, supported and contextualised by unpublished manuscripts and letters by both Stevenson and those he wrote with, this book argues that Stevenson's writings are both a product of and a meditation on collaborative writing. Stevenson's self-reflective body of work reimagines late-Victorian authorship by examining the ways that authors choose material, negotiate the marketplace and, ultimately, maintain power over their own words, or let that power go.

Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915

Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915
Author: O. Clayton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1137471506

Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and metaphors. It concentrates on five figures in particular: Henry Mayhew, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amy Levy, William Dean Howells, and Jack London.

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text
Author: Richard J. Hill
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317062175

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text explores the genesis, production and the critical appreciation of the illustrations to the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson is one of the most copied and interpreted authors of the late nineteenth century, especially his novels Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. These interpretations began with the illustration of his texts in their early editions, often with Stevenson’s express consent, and this book traces Stevenson’s understanding and critical responses to the artists employed to illustrate his texts. In doing so, it attempts to position Stevenson as an important thinker and writer on the subject of illustrated literature, and on the marriage of literature and visual arts, at a moment preceding the dawn of cinema, and the rejection of such popular tropes by modernist writers of the early twentieth century.

Approaches to Teaching Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Other Works

Approaches to Teaching Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Other Works
Author: John Wharton Lowe
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1603294228

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman tells the story of a woman, a community, and the African American experience from the Civil War through Jim Crow to the civil rights movement. This narrative and Gaines's other novels and short stories explore the life of blacks in the South, their religious traditions and folkways, and their struggles under oppression. The southern communities described are diverse: blacks, creoles of color, poor whites, and wealthy landowners. Part 1 of this volume provides biographical information about Ernest Gaines and a discussion of critical and background studies of his narrative. The essays in part 2 will help teachers of African American literature, American literature, and southern literature convey to their students various aspects of Gaines's work and the adaptations of it in relation to southern literature, history, music, folk culture, and vernaculars of English.

The Little Land

The Little Land
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-08
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9781609731533

Presents an illustrated version of the familiar poem describing a child's dream world called the Land of Play.