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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

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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 he encourages expansive thinking across texts, times, places, and lives.
Caroline McCracken-Flesher is professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow and The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders and the editor of Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament and Scotland as Science Fiction.
"For teachers of Stevenson from K12 through graduate study . . . first-rate scholars provide a sophisticated overview of his wide-ranging literary output." --Joseph McLaughlin, Ohio University "For teachers of Stevenson from K-12 through graduate study . . . first-rate scholars provide a sophisticated overview of his wide-ranging literary output." --Joseph McLaughlin, Ohio University
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