Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1890

Biographical Materials

• Introduction
• Chronology
• Biographical Essay
• Works

Literary Relations

• Aesthetes and Decadents
• Mid- and late-Victorian Fiction

Cultural Contexts

• Victorianism
• Religion and Philosophy
  • Presbyterianism
  • agnoticism

Social and Political Contexts

• Victorian Social and Political History: An Overview
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Victorian views of suicide
• Science and Technology

Theme and Technique

• Themes
• Allusions in Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
• Characterization
• Imagery, Symbolism, and Motifs
• Genre and Mode

Bibliography and Related Web Resources

• Bibliography
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Italian site)
• Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches the complete texts of five works by Stevenson

Last modified 5 January 2004
Thanks to Dan Butcher for pointing out a broken link