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

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

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

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

ISBN 13:
9780393974652
ISBN 10:
0393974650
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/07/2003
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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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.

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Preface

The Text of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

(74)

Textual Appendix

(12)

Selected Manuscript Variations

(10)

Variations in Wording between Printer's Copy Fragment and First Edition

(2)

Backgrounds and Contexts

(106)

Composition and Production

(16)

[Summary of Composition and Early Reception]

(3)

Graham Balfour

Selected Letters

(7)

Robert Louis Stevenson

To Sidney Colvin, Late September/early October 1885

(1)

To his Wife, c. October 20, 1885

(1)

To Andrew Lang, Early December 1885

(1)

To Katharine de Mattos, January 1, 1886

(1)

To Will H. Low, January 2, 1886

(1)

To F. W. H. Myers, c. February 23, 1886

(1)

To J. R. Vernon, February 25, 1886

(1)

To Edward Purcell, February 27, 1886

(1)

To F. W. H. Myers, March 1, 1886

(1)

To John Addington Symonds, Early March 1886

(1)

To Thomas Russell Sullivan, c. January 27, 1887

(1)

To John Paul Bocock, c. Mid-November 1887

(1)

[The Dream Origin of the Tale]

(6)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Reception

(12)

[Mr. Stevenson's Originality of Treatment]

(1)

Andrew Lang

From the Birmingham Daily Post [A Mere Bit of Catch-Penny Sensationalism]

(1)

[The Place of Honour]

(1)

James Ashcroft Noble

[Not Merely Strange, but Impossible]

(1)

E. T. Cook

From The Times of London [His Very Original Genius]

(2)

Letter to Robert Louis Stevenson, March 3, 1886

(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

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