Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Norton Critical Editions)

by Stevenson, Robert Louis; Linehan, Katherine B. (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780393974652
• ISBN10: 0393974650
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-07
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
The Text of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	1	(74)
Textual Appendix	63	(12)
Selected Manuscript Variations	63	(10)
Variations in Wording between Printer's Copy Fragment and First Edition	73	(2)
Backgrounds and Contexts	75	(106)
Composition and Production	77	(16)
[Summary of Composition and Early Reception]	77	(3)
Graham Balfour
Selected Letters	80	(7)
Robert Louis Stevenson
To Sidney Colvin, Late September/early October 1885	80	(1)
To his Wife, c. October 20, 1885	81	(1)
To Andrew Lang, Early December 1885	81	(1)
To Katharine de Mattos, January 1, 1886	81	(1)
To Will H. Low, January 2, 1886	82	(1)
To F. W. H. Myers, c. February 23, 1886	82	(1)
To J. R. Vernon, February 25, 1886	83	(1)
To Edward Purcell, February 27, 1886	83	(1)
To F. W. H. Myers, March 1, 1886	84	(1)
To John Addington Symonds, Early March 1886	85	(1)
To Thomas Russell Sullivan, c. January 27, 1887	85	(1)
To John Paul Bocock, c. Mid-November 1887	86	(1)
[The Dream Origin of the Tale]	87	(6)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Reception	93	(12)
[Mr. Stevenson's Originality of Treatment]	93	(1)
Andrew Lang
From the Birmingham Daily Post [A Mere Bit of Catch-Penny Sensationalism]	94	(1)
[The Place of Honour]	95	(1)
James Ashcroft Noble
[Not Merely Strange, but Impossible]	95	(1)
E. T. Cook
From The Times of London [His Very Original Genius]	96	(2)
Letter to Robert Louis Stevenson, March 3, 1886	98	(2)
John Addington Symonds
[The Individualizing Influence of Modern Democracy]	100	(1)
Julia Wedgwood
Letter to Robert Bridges, October 28, 1886	101	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
[The Art of the Presentation]	101	(1)
Henry James
From The Leamington Spa Courier The Rev. Dr. Nicholson on ``Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''	102	(3)
``Markheim'' and the Victorian Market for Sensation Fiction	105	(19)
``Markheim''	105	(17)
Robert Louis Stevenson
[How I Came to Be Such a Student of Our Penny Press]	122	(2)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Contexts: Doubles, Devils, and Monsters	124	(8)
[The Modern Double]	124	(2)
Karl Miller
[Stevenson's Scottish Devil Tales]	126	(2)
Jenni Calder
An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity	128	(4)
Judith Halberstam
Scientific Contexts: Concepts of the Divided Self	132	(9)
[Post-Darwinist Theories of the Ape Within]	132	(2)
Stephen Jay Gould
Multiplex Personality	134	(2)
Frederic W. H. Myers
[Abject Slaves to the Narcotic]	136	(2)
Norman Kerr
[This Aberrant Inclination in Myself]	138	(3)
John Addington Symbols
Sociohistorical Contexts: Political Disunity and Moral Conformity	141	(9)
[London in the 1880s]	141	(5)
Judith R. Walkowitz
[Hypocrisy]	146	(4)
Walter Houghton
Performance Adaptations	150	(31)
The Stage Premiere of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	152	(4)
C. Alex Pinkston, Jr.
[Themes and Variations]	156	(7)
Charles King
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Paramount, 1931)	163	(7)
Scott Allen Nollen
A Checklist of Major Performance Adaptations	170	(11)
Criticism	181	(34)
[The Real Stab of the Story]	183	(1)
G. K. Chesterton
[A Phenomenon of Style]	184	(5)
Vladimir Nabokov
[Instabilities of Meaning, Morality, and Narration]	189	(8)
Peter K. Garrett
[An Unconscious Allegory about the Masses and Mass Literacy]	197	(7)
Patrick Brantlinger
Sex, Secrecy and Self-Alienation in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	204	(11)
Katherine Linehan
A Chronology	215	(6)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Selected Bibliography	221