This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.;Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Body
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales (Oxford World’s Classics)
✍ Scribed by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford;Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Edition
- [New ed.] /
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780192805973
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✦ Synopsis
This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.;Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Body Snatcher; Markheim; Olalla; A Gossip on Romance; A Chapter on Dreams; Appendix A: Henry Maudsley, 'The Disintegrations of the "Ego"'; Appendix B: Frederic Myers, 'The Multiplex Personality'; Appendix C: W.T. Stead, 'Has Man Two Minds or One?'
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