The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson ; edited by Martin A. Danahay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Danahay, Martin A.

Series:

Broadview editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--Fiction.

Physicians.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Multiple personality--Fiction.

Multiple personality.

Self-experimentation in medicine--Fiction.

Self-experimentation in medicine.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Horror fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, [2005]

Summary:

"First published in 1886 as a "shilling shocker," Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde takes the basic struggle between good and evil and adds to the mix bourgeois respectability, urban violence, and class conflict. The result is a tale that has taken on the force of myth in the popular imagination. This Broadview edition provides a selection of contextual material, including contemporary reviews of the novel, Stevenson's essay "A Chapter on Dreams," and excerpts from the 1887 stage version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Also included are historical documents on criminality and degeneracy, the "Jack the Ripper" murders, and London in the 1880s." "New to this second edition are an updated critical introduction and, in the appendices, writings on Victorian psychology by Thomas Carlyle, Richard Krafft-Ebing, and Henry Maudsley, among others."--Jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215).

ISBN:

1551116553

9781551116556

OCLC:

56920940