Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Secret Sharer, and Transformation: Three Tales of Doubles, A Longman Cultural Edition / Edition 1

by Robert Stevenson

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900321415614
Publication date:	02/28/2008
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. In addition to this present volume, her editorial work includes Felicia Hemans (Princeton UP, 2000) and the Longman Cultural Edition of John Keats. With Claudia Johnson, she is coeditor of the Longman Cultural Edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. With Peter Manning, she is coeditor of the Romantics volume in The Longman Anthology of British Literature, and Selected Poems of Lord Byron (Penguin, 2005). Her critical books include the prize-winning Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 1997) and Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2007).

Barry V. Qualls is the author of The Secular Pilgrims: The Novel as Book of Life (Cambridge), and of articles and reviews on 19th-Century English Literature and on the Bible and its literary impact. His teaching interests focus on Victorian fiction and on biblical literatures. At Rutgers, he is Vice President of Undergraduate Education; earlier he served as Dean of Humanities for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and as Chair of the Department of English.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations     v
About Longman Cultural Editions     vi
About This Edition     vii
Table of Dates     ix
Mary Shelley and Transformation
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851     1
Transformation     5
Absence     23
From "Introduction" to Frankenstein (1831)     24
Charles Darwin     29
From The Voyage of the Beagle (1839): "Tierra del Fuego"     30
From The Descent of Man (1871): "General Summary and Conclusion"     37
Robert Louis Stevenson and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894     43
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde     59
Key Words: Strange and Case     122
From A Child's Garden of Verses     125
Young Night Thought     127
Windy Nights     127
Escape at Bedtime     127
The Land of Nod     128
A Good Boy     128
Shadow March     129
The Unseen Playmate     129
My Shadow     130
The Dumb Soldier     131
The Land of Story-Books     132
A Chapter on Dreams     133
Letters (with a reply from J. A.Symonds)     144
Robert Louis Stevenson and his friends on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde     144
Critical Reactions to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde     148
Max Simon Nordau     173
From Degeneration (1895)     173
Joseph Conrad and The Secret Sharer
Joseph Conrad 1857-1924     177
The Secret Sharer     181
Joseph Conrad's Letters on The Secret Sharer     219
From "Author's Note" on "the basic fact of the tale" ('Twixt Land and Sea 1920)     222
Joseph Conrad on the art of fiction from Henry James, An Appreciation     223
From "Author's Note" (1920) to The Shadow Line     224
Reviews of The Secret Sharer in 'Twixt Land and Sea     224
Further Reading and Viewing     233