Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Part I The Pleasures of Reading, a Writing, and Popular Culture -- Stevenson, Morris, and the Value of Idleness -- Living in a Book: RLS as an Engaged Reader -- The Four Boundary-Crossings of R. L. Stevenson, Novelist and Anthropologist -- Stevenson and the (Un)familiar: The Aesthetics of Late-Nineteenth-Century Biography -- The Greenhouse vs. the Glasshouse: Stevenson's Stories as Textual Matrices -- Trading Texts: Negotiations of the Professional and the Popular in the Case of Treasure Island -- Stevenson and Popular Entertainment -- Tontines, Tontine Insurance, and Commercial Culture: Stevenson and Osbourne's The Wrong Box -- Part II Scotland and the South Seas -- The Master of Ballantrae or the Writing of Frost and Stone -- Quarreling with the Father -- Figures in a Landscape: Scott, Stevenson, and Routes to the Past -- Burking the Scottish Body: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Ressurection Men -- Stevenson's Unfinished Autopsy of the Other -- Voices of the Scottish Empire -- Stevenson and the Property of Language: Narrative, Value, Modernity -- Light, Darkness, and Shadow: Stevenson in the South Seas -- Violence in the South Seas: Stevenson, the Eye, and Desire -- Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: The South Seas from Journal to Fiction -- Part III Evolutionary Psychology, Masculinity, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Stevenson, Romance, and Evolutionary Psychology -- Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Evolution: Crossing the Boundaries between Ideas and Art -- Crossing the Bounds of Single Identity: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and a Paper in a French Scientific Journal -- "City of Dreadful Night": Stevenson's Gothic London -- Pious Works: Aesthetics, Ethics, and the Modern Individual in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Consumerism and Stevenson's Misfit Masculinities -- "Markheim" and the Shadow of the Other -- Part IV Textual and Cultural Crossings -- Masters of the Hovering Life: Robert Musil and R. L. Stevenson -- Whitman and Thoreau as Literary Stowaways in Stevenson's American Writings -- The Pirate Chief in Salgari, Stevenson, and Calvino -- Murder by Suggestion: El Sueno de los heroes and The Master of Ballantrae -- Contributors -- Index of Stevenson's works -- General Index.