City of Dreadful Night: Stevenson's Gothic London.

Dryden, Linda

Abstract

The essay discusses the portrayal of late-nineteenth-century London in Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, suggesting that the city is as much of a character in the novel as the protagonists.

• Publication Date: 2006
• Deposit Date: Jun 8, 2009
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 253-264
• Book Title: Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries
• ISBN: 978-0299212247
• Keywords: Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; nineteenth century London; Gothic
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2647