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Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr
569 wordsStevenson was a well known Scottish essayist, poet and author of fiction and travel books, known especially for his novels of adventure. Characteristic for Stevenson's novels is power of invention, psychological depth, and skillful use of horror and supernatural elements. Arguing against realism, Stevenson underlined the "nameless longings of the reader", the desire for experience. Stevenson was born in Edinburgh as the son of Thomas Stevenson, joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses...
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Robert Louis Stevenson Oxford Blackwell
4,171 wordsIt appears as if the whole of civilised humanity were converted to the aesthetics of the dusk of nations (Max Nordau, 1895). How far and in what ways is Civilisation under threat in Joseph Conrad's, Heart of Darkness, (1902), and Robert Louis Stevenson's, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, (1886). Civilisation degrades the many to exalt the few. Amos Bronson Alcott (1) Fin-de-since claims that jingoism and aestheticism were upwelling's of a single underlying decadence. Stephen Arata (2...
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18 Th Century Family And Community
1,039 wordsLife in Black and White, is a great book about the Southern society in the antebellum period focussing on the daily life in Loudoun County, Virginia, tracing the lives of all classes and cultures. For years, many historians have argued that most slave families in the American antebellum south were, despite many and certain circumstances upon them, traditional nuclear families. The author, Brenda E. Stevenson, challenged numerous reviews and ideas of the nature of slave families relations and way...
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Jekyll And Mr Strange Case Of Dr
2,128 wordsThe Gothic theory of the double is both reductive and powerful. It assumes that we are all playing a role in life; that a raving beast waits within for the chains to loosen or snap. Doubles stories seem to proliferate when people sense an unnegotiable divide between the true self and society, between nature and culture. (Edmunson 48) Such duality of roles is expressed in terms of split personalities in both The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James (1843 - 1916) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll a...
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Robert Louis Stevenson Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
1,667 wordsRobert Louis Stevenson began writing during the Victorian era. His style was unlike anyone else s and his stories are still popular today. Robert Louis Stevenson was an author of many classic novels and his literary success became popular when he wrote the mystery called The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1886 at the young age of thirty-six. He was born on November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father Th...
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