A Doppelganger or “the animal within me”? Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Doppelganger or “the animal within me”? Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Author(s): Joanna Kokot
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Robert Louis Stevenson; Gothic fiction; Doppelganger; split personality; literary space
Summary/Abstract: Within the wide framework of Gothic fiction, this article offers an analysis of narrative strategies and spatial organisation in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It attempts to resolve the basic split personality mystery of whether Hyde was a Doppelganger or “the animal within me.”

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