Latest articles
- Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Sire de Malétroit’s Door” and Its Intertexts
Burkhard Niederhoff
Vol. 35, 47-68.
- On the Notion of the Counter-Flâneur: A Response to Cecile Sandten
Eva Ries
Vol. 35, 32-46.
- Strange Case of Stevenson and Unseen Collaborators: “A Chapter on Dreams” as a Textual Double of Jekyll and Hyde
Gero Guttzeit
Vol. 35, 13-31.
- Rilke, Richter, and Wallace Stevens's "Chaos"
Clay Daniel
Vol. 35, 1-12.
For a longer list of recent articles, together with their abstracts, go to Latest Additions.
News
- New Special Issue: Intertextual Stevenson - The latest Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate special issue, titled "Intertextual Stevenson," is now available online. This collection focuses on the different ways Robert Louis Stevenson’s work connects with other texts—both the books that influenced him and the modern adaptations that keep his stories alive today. Rather than looking at his life in isolation, these articles explore Stevenson as a writer constantly in conversation with others. To get to the issue, click on the "Special Issues" tab or follow this link: Intertextual Stevenson Continue Reading
- February 2026 – Daniel Deronda at 150: Love Sacred and Profane - by Francesca Pierini (Asian University for Women) Abstract George Eliot’s last novel, Daniel Deronda, was first published in eight instalments from February to September 1876. The novel’s treatment of emerging Zionism has perhaps protected it from relaxed critical approaches, and the 150th anniversary of its publication falls at a time that makes an equanimous and detached revisiting of its themes even more problematic. Daniel Deronda’s exclusion from untroubled appraisals is understandable, but unfortunate, because apart from the thorniness of some of its core themes – Judaism and a Jewish homeland in Palestine – the narrative still speaks to us through… Continue Reading
- The 2025 Connotations Volume is out - Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate Volume 34 is now available for view and download on our Connotations website. The contributions to the 2025 volume contains wide-ranging scholarly discussions; from early modern to contemporary literature, covering debates on canonicity, intertextuality, Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Stevenson, and much more. To see the full volume, click here. Continue Reading
- July 2025 – 150th Anniversary of Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now - by Eva Marik Have you ever read the novels of Anthony Trollope? They precisely suit my taste, – solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of. And these books are just as English as a beef-steak. Have they ever been tried in America? It needs an English residence to… Continue Reading