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Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad: Writers of Transition
No full textThis edited book is the first complete book-length study to consider the work of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad within the same framework. It contains essays from internationally renowned scholars of both authors and seeks to reposition Stevenson as an author whose work should be considered alongside that of Conrad and as an author whose influence is more significant than has previously been acknowledged
Food additives and children's behaviour: evidence based policy at the margins of certainty
No full textThe possible effects of food additives (specifically artificial colours) have been debated for over 30 years. The evidence accumulated suggests that for some children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) food colours exacerbate their condition. Two studies
undertaken by a research group at the University of Southampton have extended these findings to the effects on hyperactivity in children from the general population who do not show ADHD. This article reviews the response from policy-makers to these findings and concludes that the failure to impose a mandatory ban on the six food colours in the Southampton study is inadequate and that such a ban would be an appropriate application of the precautionary principle when the evidence is considered to be at the margins of certaint
It looks like a lamplit vicious fairy land behind me: Robert Louis Stevenson and Scotland
No full textThis 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
Letter from Aileen P. Stevenson to Dolly Sloan, May 5, 1905
No full text2 leaves (double-sided)Handwritten letter from Aileen P. Stevenson to Dolly Sloan, May 5, 1905, regarding the death of Dolly's sister "Miss Hitchcock.
Letter from Aileen P. Stevenson to Dolly Sloan, May 5, 1905
No full text2 leaves (double-sided)Handwritten letter from Aileen P. Stevenson to Dolly Sloan, May 5, 1905, regarding the death of Dolly's sister "Miss Hitchcock.
Revisiting Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific
No full textIn this Archive Case display, artists Simon Grennan and Soloman Enos re-examine the work of nineteenth century author Robert Louis Stevenson through dynamic graphic storytelling. Stevenson travelled to several Pacific islands before settling in Sāmoa in 1890. Referencing this time in Sāmoa, as well as Hawai’i and Europe, related items are brought together from the Museum's Pacific collections and displayed alongside historical publications of Stevenson's Pacific stories, set within new graphic remediations of these stories as comics by British and Hawaiian artists. The illustration-led display explores the journey of ideas across media (remediation) in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, Robert Louis Stevenson’s fascination with ‘the foreign', and post-colonialism in the Pacific, including new poetry focused on Hawaiian, Samoan and European post-colonialism.
The display at the Pitt Rivers Museum celebrates work that is part of a wider research project 'Remediating Stevenson', led by a UK research team (Michelle Keown, Shari Sabeti and Alice Kelly, Edinburgh University; and Simon Grennan, Chester University), in partnership with the National University of Sāmoa. The project explores Robert Louise Stevenson's Pacific fiction, travels, and friendship with Indigenous Pacific communities. The Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson project is producing the first ever multilingual graphic adaptation of the three stories from Robert Louis Stevenson's Island Nights' Entertainments (1893). The project is also commissioning new poetry by indigenous Pacific authors, and developing a set of accompanying teaching resources for use in Sāmoa, Hawai’i and Scotland through participatory arts workshops and film-making.Remediating Stevenson: Decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction through Graphic Adaptation, Arts Education and Community Engagement | Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council | Grant ID: AH/W007010/
Introversion and extroversion in certain late Victorian writers
No full textThis 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
Consolidated Papers of James Patrick Haldane-Stevenson
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/64368Correspondence and subject files, including privilege motion before the House of Commons stemming from the Larkhill incident 1955-72, Australia and New Zealand Congress for [International] Co-operation and Disarmament 1959, White Australia Policy 1960, divorce and church marriage laws 1961-72, opposition to and attempts to muzzle Stevenson 1963-65, Royal Visits 1968-71. Photograph of ? Haldane-Stevenson.114534
Consolidation: [1972.0014] "Consolidated Papers of James Patrick Haldane-Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson: Lawyer, Social Justice Activist, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative
No full textBryan Stevenson is a lawyer, social justice activist, and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, which seeks to eliminate injustice and mass incarceration. In 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative opened the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, which documents slavery, lynching and discrimination in the United States.
Stevenson and his staff members have won relief or release for more than 125 prisoners on death row. Stevenson also is a law professor at New York University and author of Just Mercy. Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu has called him America\u27s young Nelson Mandela. Stevenson has received a MacArthur Foundation genius grant and was named one of Time\u27s 100 Most Influential People in 2015
2015 Commencement Address: Bryan A. Stevenson
No full textBryan A. Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama, will receive an honorary degree from the College of the Holy Cross and address this year’s graduates during the College’s Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 22 at 10:30 a.m. ET on the campus. Stevenson is the widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. Stevenson has successfully argued several cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, and recently won an historic ruling banning mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger as unconstitutional. For his work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system, Stevenson has received numerous awards including the American Bar Association\u27s Wisdom Award for Public Service, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award Prize, the ACLU National Medal of Liberty, the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year Award, the Gruber Prize for International Justice, and the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award. Author of the acclaimed and bestselling book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Spiegel and Grau/Random House, 2014), Stevenson is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Just Mercy was named by Time Magazine one of the 10 best books of nonfiction for 2014, and has been awarded several honors including the 2015 NAACP Image Award for outstanding nonfiction literary work. Stevenson’s 2012 TED talk, “We need to talk about an injustice,” has received more than two million views.https://crossworks.holycross.edu/commence_address/1001/thumbnail.jp
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