Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Norton Critical Edition

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Deborah Lutz (Editor)

Overview

“The annotations are useful, particularly for references to biblical and other literary allusions. [The contexts] section is essential to alerting students to the many subtexts/contexts of the story.”
—MARIA CARRIG, Carthage College

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The first British edition of the novel, published in 1886 by Longmans, Green, and Co., the only edition set directly from Stevenson’s manuscript and for which he read and corrected proofs.

• Deborah Lutz’s thorough introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes to the novel.

• Seven illustrations.

• A rich and relevant selection of background materials centered on the novel’s composition, reception, and historical and cultural contexts, alongside seven of Stevenson’s letters.

• Interpretative essays by Elaine Showalter, Jack Halberstam, Martin Danahay, and Stephen Arata.

• A chronology and a selected bibliography.

About the Series

 Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393679212
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	11/08/2020
Series:	Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	601,949
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland. A sickly child, he was often confined to bed and continued to suffer from poor health throughout his lifetime. In college, Stevenson rebelled against his conservative and religious upbringing and pursued an unconventional writer’s life. Stevenson was a world traveler, and his first book, An Inland Voyage (1878) chronicles his canoeing adventures in France. His voyages took him as far as California, Hawaii, and the Samoan Islands. While bedridden with severe respiratory issues, Stevenson produced his best-known works, the children’s classics Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886), and the allegorical thriller Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and & Mr. Hyde (1886). Robert Louis Stevenson died on December 3, 1894 in Vailima, Samoa.

Deborah Lutz is the Thruston B. Morton Endowed Chair of English at the University of Louisville. She has published four books, most recently The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects and Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture. She is the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Jane Eyre and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

A Note on the Text ix

List of Illustrations xi

Introduction xiii

The Text of Strange Case of Dr. Jehyll Mr. Hyde 1

Notes on the Manuscript 61

Contexts 73

Composition 75

Graham Balfour • [Writing the Tale] 75

Robert Louis Stevenson • [The Use of Dreams] 77

[My Other Self] 84

Correspondence and Reception Robert Louis Stevenson 87

To Sidney Colvin, late September/early October 1885 87

To Charles Longman, c. November 1, 1885 88

To Will H. Low, December 26, 1885 88

To Katharine de Mattos, January 1, 1886 89

To Edward Purcell, February 27, 1886 90

John Addington Symonds • To Robert Louis Stevenson, March 3, 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson 90

To John Addington Symonds, early March 1886 92

To John Paul Bocock, c, mid-November 1887 93

"I am, Yours, RLS": A Stevenson Signature 94

Henry James • [A Wide Margin for the Wonderful] 94

Historical and Cultural Contexts 97

Judith R. Walkowitz • ["Dreadfully Delightful City"] 97

John Addington Symonds • [Passion for the Male Sex] 103

Criticism 113

Elaine Showalter • Dr. Jekylt's Closet 115

Jack Halberstam • Parasites and Perverts:

An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity 126

Martin Danahay • Dr. Jekyil's Two Bodies 135

Stephen D. Arata • The Sedulous Ape: Atavism, Professionalism, and Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde 147

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Chronology 159

Selected Bibliography 167