Disfigurement and disability in Gothic literature: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

 

Illustrations to Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1930

Jen Campbell examines how 19th-century beliefs about disability, physical appearance and character are presented in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.


Please visit this link to the British Library 

https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/disfigurement-and-disability-in-gothic-literature


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