The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

by Stevenson, Robert Louis; Danahay, Martin A.

• ISBN13: 9781551116556
• ISBN10: 1551116553
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

First published in 1886 as a "shilling shocker," Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde takes the basic struggle between good and evil and adds to the mix bourgeois respectability, urban violence, and class conflict. The result is a tale that has taken on the force of myth in the popular imagination. This Broadview edition provides a fascinating selection of contextual material, including contemporary reviews of the novel, Stevenson's essay "A Chapter on Dreams," and excerpts from the 1887 stage version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Also included are historical documents on criminality and degeneracy, the "Jack the Ripper" murders, and London in the 1880s. New to this second edition are an updated critical introduction and, in the appendices, writings on Victorian psychology by Thomas Carlyle, Richard Krafft-Ebing, and Henry Maudsley, among others.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	9	(1)
Preface to the Second Edition	10	(1)
Introduction	11	(15)
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Brief Chronology	26	(2)
A Note on the Text	28	(1)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	29	(66)
Appendix A: Stevenson's ``A Chapter on Dreams'' (1888)	95	(11)
Appendix B: Stevenson's ``Markheim'' (1884)	106	(15)
Appendix C: Stevenson's Deacon Brodie (1879)	121	(2)
Appendix D: Letters, 1885-86	123	(6)
Appendix E: Stevenson in Bournemouth, 1884-87	129	(5)
Appendix F: Reviews of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	134	(11)
Unsigned, The Times (25 January 1886)	134	(2)
Julia Wedgewood, Contemporary Review (April 1886)	136	(1)
From Henry James, Partial Portraits (1894)	137	(2)
John Addington Symonds to Robert Louis Stevenson, 3 March 1886	139	(1)
Punch (6 February 1886)	140	(5)
Appendix G: The Stage Version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	145	(12)
Appendix H: Degeneration and Crime	157	(12)
From Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)	157	(3)
From Gina Lombroso Ferrero, Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso (1911)	160	(6)
From Max Nordau, Degeneration (1895)	166	(3)
Appendix I: London in the 1880s	169	(10)
From George Augustus Sala, Gaslight and Daylight with Some London Scenes they Shine Upon (1872)	169	(2)
From Arthur Ransome, Bohemia in London (1912)	171	(1)
From J. Milner Fothergill, The Town Dweller: His Needs and Wants (1889)	172	(1)
From William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890)	173	(6)
Appendix J: ``Jack the Ripper''	179	(13)
New York Times (9 September 1888)	179	(1)
The Times (10 September 1888)	180	(1)
Punch (15 September 1888)	181	(1)
Punch (22 September 1888)	182	(2)
Punch (29 September 1888)	184	(3)
Punch (13 October 1888)	187	(2)
From D.G. Halstead, Doctor in the Nineties (1959)	189	(3)
Appendix K: Victorian Pyschology	192	(20)
From Thomas Carlyle, ``The Age of Romance'' (1837)	192	(1)
From Henry Maudsley, ``The Double Brain'' (1889)	193	(5)
From F. H. Myers, ``Multiplex Personality'' (1886)	198	(5)
From James Sully, ``The Dream as Revelation'' (1893)	203	(5)
From Richard Krafft-Ebing, Pyschopathia Sexualis (1886)	208	(2)
Punch Cartoon (12 August 1882)	210	(2)
Select Bibliography	212