Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is set to be probed by academics for his works’ “colonial stereotypes” as part of an almost £1 million-valued research drive. The three-year project, “Remediating Stevenson: Decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Fiction Through Graphic Adaptation, Arts Education and Community Engagement”, is being propped up by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for an eye-watering £809,334 of taxpayer money. And its researchers at the University of Edinburgh can exp…
