Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Secret Sharer, and Transformation Three Tales of Doubles, A Longman Cultural Edition

by Stevenson, Robert Louis; Conrad, Joseph; Shelley, Mary J; Wolfson, Susan J.; Qualls, Barry V.

• ISBN13: 9780321415615
• ISBN10: 0321415612
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Affordably priced, Longman Cultural Editions present classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. Each Longman Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of a key literary work, supplemented by helpful annotations and followed by contextual materials that reveal the conversations and controversies of its historical moment.

Author Biography

Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. In addition to this present volume, her editorial work includes  Felicia Hemans (Princeton UP, 2000) and the Longman Cultural Edition of John Keats.  With Claudia Johnson, she is coeditor of the Longman Cultural Edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. With Peter Manning, she is coeditor of the Romantics volume in The Longman Anthology of British Literature, and Selected Poems of Lord Byron (Penguin, 2005).  Her critical books include the prize-winning Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 1997) and Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2007).

 

Barry V. Qualls is the author of The Secular Pilgrims: The Novel as Book of Life (Cambridge), and of articles and reviews on 19th-Century English Literature and on the Bible and its literary impact.   His teaching interests focus on Victorian fiction and on biblical literatures.  At Rutgers, he is Vice President of Undergraduate Education; earlier he served as Dean of Humanities for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and as Chair of the Department of English.

 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. v
About Longman Cultural Editions	p. vi
About This Edition	p. vii
Table of Dates	p. ix
Mary Shelley and Transformation
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851	p. 1
Transformation	p. 5
Absence	p. 23
From "Introduction" to Frankenstein (1831)	p. 24
Charles Darwin	p. 29
From The Voyage of the Beagle (1839): "Tierra del Fuego"	p. 30
From The Descent of Man (1871): "General Summary and Conclusion"	p. 37
Robert Louis Stevenson and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894	p. 43
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	p. 59
Key Words: Strange and Case	p. 122
From A Child's Garden of Verses	p. 125
Young Night Thought	p. 127
Windy Nights	p. 127
Escape at Bedtime	p. 127
The Land of Nod	p. 128
A Good Boy	p. 128
Shadow March	p. 129
The Unseen Playmate	p. 129
My Shadow	p. 130
The Dumb Soldier	p. 131
The Land of Story-Books	p. 132
A Chapter on Dreams	p. 133
Letters (with a reply from J. A. Symonds)	p. 144
Robert Louis Stevenson and his friends on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	p. 144
Critical Reactions to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	p. 148
Max Simon Nordau	p. 173
From Degeneration (1895)	p. 173
Joseph Conrad and The Secret Sharer
Joseph Conrad 1857-1924	p. 177
The Secret Sharer	p. 181
Joseph Conrad's Letters on The Secret Sharer	p. 219
From "Author's Note" on "the basic fact of the tale" ('Twixt Land and Sea 1920)	p. 222
Joseph Conrad on the art of fiction from Henry James, An Appreciation	p. 223
From "Author's Note" (1920) to The Shadow Line	p. 224
Reviews of The Secret Sharer in 'Twixt Land and Sea	p. 224
Further Reading and Viewing	p. 233
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