The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde（化身博士）

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 rigor-ously annotated for student readers and is accompanied by a textual appendix.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of materials on the tale's pub-lication history as well as its relevance to Victorian culture. Twelve of Steven-son's letters from the years 1885-87 are excerpted, along with his essay "A Chapter on Dreams," in which he comments on the plot's origin. Ten contempo-rary responses--including those by Julia Wedgwood, Gerard Manley Hopkins,and Henry James--illustrate Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde's initial re-ception. Stevenson's 1885 tale "Markheim," a precursor to Jekyll and Hyde and a window onto the Victorian sensation market, is reprinted in its entirety in this Norton Critical Edition. Karl Miller, Jenni Calder, and Judith Halberstam dis-cuss literary genres central to Jekyll and Hyde. Four scientific essays--including one by Stephen Jay Gould--elucidate Victorian conceptions of atavism, multiple-personality disorder, narcotics addiction, and sexual aberration. Judith IR. Walkowitz and Walter Houghton consider the implications of Victorian moral conformity and political disunity for society at large.
"Performance Adaptations" addresses--in writings by C. Alex Pinkston, Jr., Charles King, and Scott Allen Nollen--the many ways in which Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been dramatized over more than a century and ex-plores its status as a perpetually effective vehicle for changing psychological and social concerns. A checklist of major performance adaptations is provided, along with a sampler of publicity photos.
"Criticism" includes essays by G. K. Chesterton, Vladimir Nabokov, Peter K.Garrett, Patrick Brantlinger, and Katherine Linehan that center on the tale's major themes of morality, allegory, and self-alienation.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

The text of Stevenson's novella is that of the 1886 First British Edition, the only edition which was set directly from the author's manuscript and for which he read proofs. It has been rigorously annotated for undergraduate readers and is accompanied by a textual appendix. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of materials on the story and its relevance to Victorian culture. "Performance Adaptations" shows the versatility with which the plot of Jekyll and Hyde has been reworked over more than a century as an outlet for modern psychological and social concerns. "Criticism" collects five essays on the novella, centering on its allegorical dimensions (Chesterton, Brantlinger, and Linehan) and its narrative technique (Nabokov, Garrett). A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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Katherine B. Linehan is Professor of English at Oberlin College. She is the author of articles on Robert Louis Stevenson, George Gissing, and George Eliot.

List of Illustrations
Preface
The Text of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
TEXTUAL APPENDIX
I. Selected Manuscript Variations
II. Variations in Wording between Printer's Copy Fragment and First Edition
Backgrounds and Contexts
COMPOSITION AND PRODUCTION
Graham Balfour [Summary of Composition and Early Reception]
Robert Louis Stevenson Selected Letters
To Sidney Colvin, Late September/early October 1885
To his Wife, c. October 20, 1885
To Andrew Lang, Early December i885
To Katharine de Mattos, January i, 1886
To Will H. Low, January 2, 1886
To F. W. H. Myers, c. February 23, i886
To J. R. Vernon, February 25, 1886
To Edward Purcell, February 27, i886
To F. W. H. Myers, March i, i886
To John Addington Symonds, Early March i886
To Thomas Russell Sullivan, c. January 27, I887
To John Paul Bocock, c. Mid-November i887
Robert Louis Stevenson [The Dream Origin of the Talel RECEPTION
[Andrew Lang] [Mr. Stevenson's Originality of Treatmentl
From the Birmingham Daily Post [A Mere Bit of Catch- Penny Sensationalism]
[James Ashcroft Noble] [The Place of Honour]
[E. T. Cook] [Not Merely Strange, but Impossible]
From The Times of London [His Very Original Genius]
John Addington Symonds Letter to Robert Louis Stevenson, March 3, 1886
[Julia Wedgwood] [The Individualizing Influence of Modern Democracy]
Gerard Manley Hopkins Letter to Robert Bridges, October 28, 1886
Henry James [The Art of the Presentation]
From The Leamington Spa Courier The Rev. Dr. Nicholson on "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
"MARKHEIM" AND THE VICTORIAN MARKET FOR SENSATION FICTION
Robert Louis Stevenson "Markbeim"
Robert Louis Stevenson [How I Came to Be Such a Student of Our Penny Press]
LITERARY CONTEXTS: DOUBLES, DEVILS, AND MONSTERS
Karl Miller [The Modern Double]
Jenni Calder - [Stevenson's Scottish Devil Tales]
Judith Halberstam An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity
SCIENTIFIC CONTEXTS: CONCEPTS OF THE DIVIDED SELF
Stephen Jay Gould [Post-Darwinist Theories of the Ape Within]
Frederic W. H. Myers Multiplex Personality
Norman Kerr [Abject Slaves to the Narcotic]
John Addington Symonds [This Aberrant Inclination in Myself]
SOCIOHISTORICAL CONTEXTS: POLITICAL DISUNITY AND MORAL CONFORMITY
Judith R. Walkowitz [London in the 1880s]
Walter Houghton [Hypocrisy]
PERFORMANCE ADAPTATIONS
C. Alex Pinkston, Jr. The Stage Premiere of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. ttyde
Charles King [Themes and Variations]
Scott Allen Nollen Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(Paramount, 1931)
A Checklist of Major Performance Adaptations
Criticism
Robert Louis Stevenson:A Chronology
Selected Bibliography