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List of Illustrations | |
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Preface | |
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The Text of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | |
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Backgrounds and Contexts | |
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Composition and Production | |
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[Summary of Composition and Early Reception] | |
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Selected Letters | |
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To Sidney Colvin, Late September/early October 1885 | |
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To his Wife, c. October 20, 1885 | |
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To Andrew Lang, Early December 1885 | |
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To Katharine de Mattos, January 1, 1886 | |
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To Will H. Low, January 2, 1886 | |
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To F. W. H. Myers, c. February 23, 1886 | |
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To J. R. Vernon, February 25, 1886 | |
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To Edward Purcell, February 27, 1886 | |
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To F. W. H. Myers, March 1, 1886 | |
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To John Addington Symonds, Early March 1886 | |
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To Thomas Russell Sullivan, c. January 27, 1887 | |
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To John Paul Bocock, c. Mid-November 1887 | |
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The Dream Origin of the Tale | |
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Reception | |
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Mr. Stevenson's Originality of Treatment | |
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A Mere Bit of Catch-Penny Sensationalism | |
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The Place of Honour | |
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Not Merely Strange, but Impossible | |
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His Very Original Genius | |
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Letter to Robert Louis Stevenson, March 3, 1886 | |
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The Individualizing Influence of Modern Democracy | |
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Letter to Robert Bridges, October 28, 1886 | |
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The Art of the Presentation | |
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The Rev Dr. Nicholson on "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" | |
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"Markheim" and the Victorian Market for Sensation Fiction | |
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"Markheim" | |
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How I Came to Be Such a Student of Our Penny Press | |
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Literary Contexts: Doubles, Devils, and Monsters | |
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The Modern Double | |
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Stevenson's Scottish Devil Tales | |
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An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity | |
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Scientific Contexts: Conception of the Divided Self | |
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Post-Darwinist Theories of the Ape Within | |
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Multiplex Personality | |
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Abject Slaves to the Narcotic | |
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This Aberrant Inclination in Myself | |
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Sociohistorical Contexts: Political Disunity and Moral Conformity | |
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London in the 1880s | |
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Hypocrisy | |
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Performance Adaptations | |
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The Stage Premiere of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | |
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Themes and Variations | |
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Paramount, 1931) | |
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A Checklist of Major Performance Adaptations | |
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Criticism | |
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The Real Stab of the Story | |
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A Phenomenon of Style | |
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Instabilities of Meaning, Morality, and Narration | |
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An Unconscious Allegory about the Masses and Mass Literacy | |
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Sex, Secrecy and Self-Alienation in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A Chronology | |
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Selected Bibliography | |