For Further Reading

BIOGRAPHY

 

Bell, Ian. Dreams of Exile: Robert Louis Stevenson, a Biography. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.

Calder, Jenni. Robert Louis Stevenson: A Life Study. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Calder, Jenni, ed. Stevenson and Victorian Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981.

Daiches, David. Robert Louis Stevenson and His World. London: Thames and Hudson, 1973.

Mackay, Margaret. The Violent Friend: The Story of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1840-1914. Garden City, NY Doubleday, 1968.

Maixner, Paul, ed. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.

McLynn, Frank. Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography. New York: Random House, 1994.

Pope-Hennessy, James. Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.

 

 

CRITICAL WORKS

 

Eigner, Edwin M. Robert Louis Stevenson and Romantic Tradition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.

Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957.

James, Henry. “The Art of Fiction.” 1884. In The House of Fiction: Essays on the Novel, edited and with an introduction by Leon Edel. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

. “Robert Louis Stevenson.” 1887. In The House of Fiction: Essays on the Novel, edited and with an introduction by Leon Edel. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Kiely, Robert. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Smith, Janet Adam, ed. Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record of Friendship and Criticism. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948.

Swinnerton, Frank. R. L. Stevenson: A Critical Study. New York: George H. Doran, 1923. Swinnerton was shrewdly critical of RLS, causing Treasure Island to be panned when it appeared; hence this is an important historical document.

 

ON PIRATES

 

Defoe, Daniel. A General History of the Pyrates. 1724. Edited by Manuel Schonhorn. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1999.

Dow, George Francis, and John Henry Edmonds. The Pirates of the New England Coast, 1630-1730. 1923. New York: Dover, 1996.

Ritchie, Robert C. Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Stevenson, Fanny. The Cruise of the “Janet Nichol” among the South Sea Islands: A Diary. London: Chatto and Windus, 1915.

 

 

OTHER WORKS BY STEVENSON

 

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited and with an introduction by Barry Menikoff. New York: Modern Library, 2002.

. The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays. Edited by Jeremy Treglown. London: Chatto and Windus, 1988. Includes the essays “Walt Whitman,” “A Gossip on Romance,” “A Humble Remonstrance,” and “My First Book—Treasure Island.”

. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited by Bradford A. Booth and Ernest Mehew. 8 vols. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994-1995.