Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : an authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, performance adaptations, criticism /

Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : an authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, performance adaptations, criticism /

Presents the annotated text of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel about a kind and well-respected doctor who is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation, and includes essays on the story's backgrounds and contexts, a look at performance adaptations and a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Other Authors: Linehan, Katherine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2003]
Series:Norton critical edition.
Subjects:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, > 1850-1894. > Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Physicians > Fiction.
Multiple personality > Fiction.
Self-experimentation in medicine > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • The text of Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Backgrounds and contexts
  • Composition and production
  • [Summary of composition and early reception] / Graham Balfour
  • Selected letters / Robert Louis Stevenson
  • [The dream origin of the tale] / Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Reception
  • [Mr. Stevenson's originality of treatment] / [Andrew Lang]
  • [A mere bit of catch-penny sensationalism] / Birmingham Daily Post
  • [The place of honour] / [James Ashcroft Noble]
  • [Not merely strange, but impossible] / [E.T. Cook]
  • [His very original genius] / The Times of London
  • Letter to Robert Louis Stevenson, March 3, 1886 / John Addington Symonds
  • [The individualizing influence of modern democracy] / [Julia Wedgwood]
  • Letter to Robert Bridges, October 28, 1886 / Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • [The art of the presentation] / Henry James
  • The Rev. Dr. Nicholson on "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" / Leamington Spa Courier
  • "Markheim" and the Victorian market for sensation fiction
  • Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson
  • [How I came to be such a student of our penny press] / Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Literary contexts : doubles, devils, and monsters
  • [The modern double] / Karl Miller
  • [Stevenson's Scottish devil tales] / Jenni Calder
  • An introduction to Gothic monstrosity / Judith Halberstam
  • Scientific contexts : concepts of the divided self
  • [Post-Darwinist theories of the ape within] / Stephen Jay Gould
  • Multiplex personality / Frederic W.H. Myers
  • [Abject slaves to the narcotic] / Norman Kerr
  • [This aberrant inclination in myself] / John Addington Symonds
  • Sociohistorical contexts : political disunity and moral conformity
  • [London in the 1880s] / Judith R. Walkowitz
  • [Hypocrisy] / Walter Houghton
  • Performance adaptations
  • The stage premiere of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / C. Alex Pinkston, Jr.
  • [Themes and variations] / Charles King
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Scott Allen Nollen
  • A checklist of major performance adaptations
  • Criticism
  • [The real stab of the story] / G.K. Chesterton
  • [A phenomenon of style] / Vladimir Nabokov
  • [Instabilities of meaning, morality, and narration] / Peter K. Garrett
  • [An unconscious allegory about the masses and mass literacy] / Patrick Brantlinger
  • Sex, secrecy and self-alienation in Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Katherine Linehan
  • Robert Louis Stevenson : a chronology.