Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of Collaboration

Audrey Murfin is Assistant Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. Her publications include “Arthur Morrison, Mimesis and Social Justice: Following Dickens’s Dark Legacy through the Late-Victorian Slums.” The Literary London Journal 11 (2014): 4–21, “‘Part Alive, Part Putrescent’: Coral, Culture, and Contagion in the Island Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson.” Victorians Institute Journal 40 (2012): 33-56, and “The Gothic Challenge to Victorian Realism: Buried Narratives in Villette, Aurora Leigh, and Lady Audley’s Secret.” The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies 10 (2011): 31 pages.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Collaboration in Theory and PracticeCriminal Collaborators: Deacon Brodie and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeCollaboration and Marriage: The DynamiterCounterpoint: Fanny and Louis’ Pacific DiariesDisjecta Membra: Collaboration and the Body of the Text in The Wrong Box and The Master of Ballantrae‘A Kind of Partnership Business’: The Wrecker and The Ebb-TideNotesBibliographyIndex

Murfin gives us a fresh perspective on the art of collaboration and makes a persuasive case for seeing collaboration as central to Stevenson’s evolving sense of what narrative art can do. She nests Stevenson securely in the contexts of his historical moment while also delineating the contours of his originality.