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Authors: Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine B. Linehan
ISBN-13: 9780393974652, ISBN-10: 0393974650
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Robert Louis Stevenson

The Victorian poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson once said, "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." The author of the magical A Child's Garden of Verses and the chilling The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson indeed planted powerful literary seeds -- that grew into undisputed classics.

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This Norton Critical Edition of Stevenson's enduringly popular and chilling tale is based on the 1886 First British Edition, the only edition set directly from Stevenson's manuscript and for which he read proofs. The text has been rigorously annotated for student readers and is accompanied by a textual appendix.

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	The Text of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	1
	Backgrounds and Contexts	75
	Composition and Production
	[Summary of Composition and Early Reception]	77
	Selected Letters	80
	To Sidney Colvin, Late September/early October 1885	80
	To his Wife, c. October 20, 1885	81
	To Andrew Lang, Early December 1885	81
	To Katharine de Mattos, January 1, 1886	81
	To Will H. Low, January 2, 1886	82
	To F. W. H. Myers, c. February 23, 1886	82
	To J. R. Vernon, February 25, 1886	83
	To Edward Purcell, February 27, 1886	83
	To F. W. H. Myers, March 1, 1886	84
	To John Addington Symonds, Early March 1886	85
	To Thomas Russell Sullivan, c. January 27, 1887	85
	To John Paul Bocock, c. Mid-November 1887	86
	The Dream Origin of the Tale	87
	Reception	93
	Mr. Stevenson's Originality of Treatment	93
	A Mere Bit of Catch-Penny Sensationalism	94
	The Place of Honour	95
	Not Merely Strange, but Impossible	95
	His Very Original Genius	96
	Letter to Robert Louis Stevenson, March 3, 1886	98
	The Individualizing Influence of Modern Democracy	100
	Letter to Robert Bridges, October 28, 1886	101
	The Art of the Presentation	101
	The Rev Dr. Nicholson on "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"	102
	"Markheim" and the Victorian Market for Sensation Fiction	105
	"Markheim"	105
	How I Came to Be Such a Student of Our Penny Press	122
	Literary Contexts: Doubles, Devils, and Monsters	124
	The Modern Double	124
	Stevenson's Scottish Devil Tales	126
	An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity	128
	Scientific Contexts: Conception of the Divided Self	132
	Post-Darwinist Theories of the Ape Within	132
	Multiplex Personality	134
	Abject Slaves to the Narcotic	136
	This Aberrant Inclination in Myself	138
	Sociohistorical Contexts: Political Disunity and Moral Conformity	141
	London in the 1880s	141
	Hypocrisy	146
	Performance Adaptations	150
	The Stage Premiere of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	152
	Themes and Variations	156
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Paramount, 1931)	163
	A Checklist of Major Performance Adaptations	170
	Criticism	181
	The Real Stab of the Story	183
	A Phenomenon of Style	184
	Instabilities of Meaning, Morality, and Narration	189
	An Unconscious Allegory about the Masses and Mass Literacy	197
	Sex, Secrecy and Self-Alienation in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	204
	Robert Louis Stevenson: A Chronology	215
	Selected Bibliography	221

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