Gothic Elements in ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’

The relationship between scientific discourse and the Victorian Gothic is greatly emphasised when reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.The work is now associated with the mental condition of a ‘split personality’, where two personalities of differing character reside in one person.

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