This Norton Critical Edition of Stevenson's enduringly popular and chilling tale is based on the 1886 First British Edition, the only edition set directly from Stevenson's manuscript and for which he read proofs. The text has been rigor-ously annotated for student readers and is accompanied by a textual appendix.

List of Illustrations

Preface

The Text of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

TEXTUAL APPENDIX

I. Selected Manuscript Variations

II. Variations in Wording between Printer's Copy Fragment and First Edition

Backgrounds and Contexts

COMPOSITION AND PRODUCTION

Graham Balfour [Summary of Composition and Early Reception]

Robert Louis Stevenson Selected Letters

To Sidney Colvin, Late September/early October 1885

To his Wife, c. October 20, 1885

To Andrew Lang, Early December i885

To Katharine de Mattos, January i, 1886

To Will H. Low, January 2, 1886

To F. W. H. Myers, c. February 23, i886

To J. R. Vernon, February 25, 1886

To Edward Purcell, February 27, i886

To F. W. H. Myers, March i, i886

To John Addington Symonds, Early March i886

To Thomas Russell Sullivan, c. January 27, I887

To John Paul Bocock, c. Mid-November i887

Robert Louis Stevenson [The Dream Origin of the Talel RECEPTION

[Andrew Lang] [Mr. Stevenson's Originality of Treatmentl

From the Birmingham Daily Post [A Mere Bit of Catch- Penny Sensationalism]

[James Ashcroft Noble] [The Place of Honour]

[E. T. Cook] [Not Merely Strange, but Impossible]

From The Times of London [His Very Original Genius]

John Addington Symonds Letter to Robert Louis Stevenson, March 3, 1886

[Julia Wedgwood] [The Individualizing Influence of Modern Democracy]

Gerard Manley Hopkins Letter to Robert Bridges, October 28, 1886

Henry James [The Art of the Presentation]

From The Leamington Spa Courier The Rev. Dr. Nicholson on "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

"MARKHEIM" AND THE VICTORIAN MARKET FOR SENSATION FICTION

Robert Louis Stevenson "Markbeim"

Robert Louis Stevenson [How I Came to Be Such a Student of Our Penny Press]

LITERARY CONTEXTS: DOUBLES, DEVILS, AND MONSTERS

Karl Miller [The Modern Double]

Jenni Calder - [Stevenson's Scottish Devil Tales]

Judith Halberstam An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity

SCIENTIFIC CONTEXTS: CONCEPTS OF THE DIVIDED SELF

Stephen Jay Gould [Post-Darwinist Theories of the Ape Within]

Frederic W. H. Myers Multiplex Personality

Norman Kerr [Abject Slaves to the Narcotic]

John Addington Symonds [This Aberrant Inclination in Myself]

SOCIOHISTORICAL CONTEXTS: POLITICAL DISUNITY AND MORAL CONFORMITY

Judith R. Walkowitz [London in the 1880s]

Walter Houghton [Hypocrisy]

PERFORMANCE ADAPTATIONS

C. Alex Pinkston, Jr. The Stage Premiere of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. ttyde

Charles King [Themes and Variations]

Scott Allen Nollen Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(Paramount, 1931)

A Checklist of Major Performance Adaptations

Criticism

Robert Louis Stevenson:A Chronology

Selected Bibliography