Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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

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

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