To what extent, in the novel ‘The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ by R. L. Stevenson, the good and evil sides of a man is brought to light by the external (social) and internal (psychological) factors and what are the results of this metamorphosis over the psychology of Dr. Jekyll?

Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. Stevenson, besides his authorship, was also a well-known poet and a travel-writer. Today, Stevenson is among the authors whose novels are most translated to other languages in the world . ‘Stevenson's characters often prefer unknown hazards to everyday life of the Victorian society.’1 ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ by Robert Louis Stevenson, which is accepted as the best novel of the R. L. Stevenson, first published in 1886 and in a real short time sold nearly 40,000 copies in Britain. The mystery of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is revealed by the testimonies of Dr. Lanyon, Mr. Utterson, Mr. Enfield, and Poole(Jekyll's butler). One day, with the help of Dr. Jekyll’s will, Mr. Utterson (Jekyll's lawyer), finds out that a stranger, named as Mr. Hyde, is the heir of the Dr. Jekyll's heritage. Mr. Utterson first couldn’t realize the fact behind this weird situation despite his wide research about this stranger and conversations with his friend Dr. Jekyll. However a few witnesses who witnessed this man only mention the irritating evil energy that transpires through his being. First Dr. Jekyll states that Mr. Hyde is simply a close friend of his. Then, when Mr. Hyde is suspected of murder

Introversion and extroversion in certain late Victorian writers

This thesis deals with three writers, George Gissing, Edmund Gosse and Robert Louis Stevenson. I use the words "introversion" and "extroversion" partly in a geographical sense. George Gissing, for example, in spite of Continental influences remained a very English (in some ways almost insular) novelist, and in that sense an introvert. Edmund Gosse, on the other hand, was a very cosmopolitan critic although his style was typically English. Robert Louis Stevenson provides a third angle. Having been born in Edinburgh he was forced into exile for most of his life, and obviously this had a great effect on his writings. Of the three writers most weight is given to Edmund Gosse. In my analysis of George Gissing I concentrate on some of his best known novels, The Unclassed, The Nether World, New Grub Street and Born in Exile. The Emancipated and By the Ionian Sea deal specifically with Italy. There are four chapters on Edmund Gosse. The first concentrates on the early part of his long career when his main interest was Scandinavian literature. The next two chapters give an account of his impressions of and writings on America and France. In the fourth chapter on Edmund Gosse I concentrate on the part of his career when he had become an established authority on his own country's literature. Robert Louis Stevenson, too, is dealt with in four chapters. First I write briefly about his Scottish works, all inspired by his childhood and youth. Next I deal with his two favourite countries, France and the United States, both associated with his Wife, Fanny. The last chapter follows Stevenson to the South Seas where he spent the last few years of his life and wrote some of his best books. The three writers are compared from time to time. Robert Louis Stevenson and Edmund Gosse knew each other well; George Gissing is the odd man out. But his reaction to foreign influences differs from that of the other two and this makes a comparison very interesting

It looks like a lamplit vicious fairy land behind me: Robert Louis Stevenson and Scotland

This thesis concerns a man and his home country, exploring the physical, the emotional and the imaginative bonding of the two. The man is Robert Louis Stevenson. A frail, consumptive novelist, poet and Scot, who transcended his infirmities to create romantic heroes of magnificent adventures, and transcended his self-imposed exile by setting them amidst the heather. The country is Scotland, a country which nurtured and debilitated, inspired and repelled Stevenson. It was also one in which he was ultimately unable to survive. Stevenson was not solely a Scottish writer, just as he is not solely a children's writer. His work does reflect his peripatetic life, but the purpose of this thesis is to focus upon his Scottish fiction. It will argue that it was in these works that his imagination and his artistic skills fused best. Scotland’s influence upon Stevenson will be seen as twofold. Firstly, the geographical and historical impressions which were made upon him, and secondly, the traditions of superstion which so characterised its people. A study of Stevenson's non-fictional portrait of Edinburgh will be made to elucidate his continued impulse to write about Scotland and what it meant to be Scottish. Stevenson’s Scottish fiction will be shown as far more than the laments of a homesick ex-pat. In recognising the viciousness of his fairyland, perceiving the skull beneath the skin, Stevenson gave to his fiction and his Scotland a richness and vitality which might not have been possible had he been a comfortable resident of a comfortable Edinburgh house

The \u201cMyth of Tusitala\u201d in Samoa: R. L. Stevenson\u2019s Presence in Albert Wendt\u2019s Fiction

The legacy left by Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific is undeniable and still really strong, and it represents a priceless heritage and source of inspiration for many postcolonial writers of the area. The aim of the paper is to investigate the strong influence of Stevenson\u2019s life in the Pacific on the imagery of the Samoan novelist Albert Wendt, trying to reread the relationship between the two authors through the analysis of Wendt\u2019s literary production. Analyzing Albert Wendt\u2019s Stevensonian references in Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree/Leaves of the Banyan Tree (1979) and The Mango\u2019s Kiss (2003), I will argue that Stevenson\u2019s image in Wendt\u2019s texts could be seen as a sort of \u201ctotem\u201d in the Freudian sense of the term, a symbol deeply related to the sacred and the figure of the forefather, but also the center of love and hatred for the Samoan community wherein the Scottish writer spent his last years from 1888 to 1894

Robert Louis Stevenson, the Writer and the Man [Twine Bound Bundle]

This is one of twelve sermons Earl Davis kept together in a twine-bound collection. While these manuscripts are undated, internal evidence clearly dates them to the years 1909-1911. The United States went through a recession in 1908, and there was increasing labor unrest, including a general strike in Philadelphia in 1910. These difficulties provide some of the backdrop to these manuscripts. One of the manuscripts, “What about City Government,” has a clear notation that it was written for the “Pipe and Pen Club,” presumably some periodic gathering to discuss issues of the day. It is possible that all – or nearly all – of these manuscripts were prepared for that gathering, as they do not read like sermons. This is a discussion of the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, and why his open-hearted and generous nature appeals to the age. He likens reading Stevenson to fishing along a beautiful stream , not for the catch but simply for the joy of the fishing . The primary downloadable document contains the original document followed by the transcription. The bottom of each item page also features the primary document as an embedded pdf for browsing. Transcription by Davis Baird. Item description based off writing and context provided by Davis Baird.https://commons.clarku.edu/pittsfield_manuscripts/1023/thumbnail.jp

Secrets and Lies: How the British Used Camouflage and Deception in Two World Wars

The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Nicholas Rankin was born in Yorkshire, England, but grew up in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising. Educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, he lived and worked in South America and Spain before becoming a freelance writer at the age of 30. His first book, Dead Man's Chest (Faber, 1987) tells the story of following the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson from Scotland to Samoa. Rankin worked for 20 years for the BBC World Service at Bush House in London, producing and presenting a wide range of radio documentaries. His eight-part series on ecology and evolution, A Green History of the Planet, won two UN awards. His six-part series on drugs in nature and culture, Plants of Power, was widely praised. Another radio feature, on Picasso's masterpiece of 1937, led eventually to the writing of his second book, Telegram from Guernica: the Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent (Faber, 2003). He gave a presentation about this book at the Mershon Center in November 2003. Rankin will discuss his most recent book, A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars (Oxford University Press, 2009). This work of popular military history culminates a five-year process of researching and writing.The Ohio State University. Department of TheaterThe Ohio State University. Department of HistoryOhio State University. Mershon Center for International Security StudiesEvent webpage, event photos, streaming vide

"My Dear God-Like Sculptor..." RLS & Saint-Gaudens

The portrait-relief of Robert Louis Stevenson in Saint Giles Church in Edinburgh is a graceful memorial to a much-loved writer. It is also Scotland’s only example of the work of the great American sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). Westminster has a reduction of his standing statue of Lincoln from Chicago; Dublin has the Parnell Monument, to a large extent the work of his studio when Saint-Gaudens himself was dying. But, in the Stevenson Memorial, Edinburgh has a work which held greater personal significance for the sculptor: it commemorates a friend