Lance Sunshine

Ms. Gardner

English 10H / Period 6

7 November 2016

Outside Reading: Annotated Bibliography

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Stevenson: Tales of Two Gentlemen

The Atlantic, Nov. 2001, p. 147. Literature

Doyle, Brian. "A head full of swirling dreams."

Resource Center, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&u=sant95918&v=2.1&id=

GALE%7CA82265746&it=r&asid=d4a32124c4d8f7e8d3982c84956eef9d. Accessed 5

Nov. 2016.

This article, penned by the Atlantic (a magazine reporting on current subjects and issues

of every kind) writer Brian Doyle, is a record of Robert Louis Stevensons life.

Throughout, the largest turning points in Stevensons writing and family life, and small

details that made both those aspects more significant, are presented.

Doyle does not possess the expertise in classical literature that others do, as the Atlantic is

not a journal for such analyses or recordings, but his information is accurate and

comprehensive - and furthers the experience of reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by

providing background on Stevenson that explains and/or mirrors events in the plot.

Stevensons life is well-articulated in this article, and is relayed in terms that, while not
 commonplace, can be understood by all and enhance a reading of the short story.

Stevensons struggle with disease and an early death only make his staggering

achievements and talents more impressive, and because of Doyles essay, The Strange

Cases setting of gentlemanly society can now be viewed as populated by men similar to

Stevenson himself. Doyle recreates the authors life effectively and engagingly;

moreover, as the intention of the essay is to inform, it enlightens the reader and reveals

connections that heighten a readers understanding of the short story.

Poetry and Prose of Robert Louis Stevenson

Flesch, William. "Stevenson, Robert Louis." The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry,

New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2009. Bloom's Literature.

19th Century.

www.fofweb.com

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rd=True. Accessed 6 Nov. 2016.

William Flesch catalogs many of Robert Louis Stevensons works, and expands upon his

poetry collections, in his biography of Stevenson. He also touches upon Stevensons

chronic illnesses, and how they influenced Stevensons first stories, and then his later

novels as well. He briefly compares Stevensons poetry to that of Lewis Carroll and

Edward Lear, but notes the differences between audiences and presentations.

The biography outlines Stevensons life broadly, but in focusing on Stevensons poetry,

the reader is subjected to a new aspect of Stevensons writing that is largely absent in Dr.
 Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The article accomplishes this through an adults viewpoint, as the

experience of reading Stevensons poems as a child and an adult produces a new

viewpoint each time; Flesch communicates this idea skillfully, especially to those

unexposed to Stevensons verse. The biography also explains the inspirations and causes

behind some of Stevensons stories and verse, and those inspirations utilized by the

article create a new emotion and thought process when reading the short story.

Hidden Details May Appear Through Appearances

Hutchinson, Joanne. "Appearances Are All We Have." Contemporary Literary Criticism,

edited

by Sharon R. Gunton and Laurie Lanzen Harris, vol. 15, Gale, 1980. Literature

Resource Center,

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GALE%7CH1420001823&it=r&asid=c816bf7387958553df2724edcd53083c.

Accessed 6 Nov. 2016. Originally published in Twentieth Century Literature, Special

Issue: Ivy Compton-Burnett, vol. 25, no. 2, Summer 1979, pp. 183-193.

Within Joanne Hutchinsons article from Twentieth Century Literature, a

distinguished journal for analyses of classic and reputable writing, she delves into

how appearances dictate reality partially in the real world, and almost entirely in

novels. As Hutchinson probes some of I. Compton-Burnetts works and draws

conclusions about her portrayal of appearances, Hutchinson reveals features of that

theme that are universal across literature.

 The acute analysis of appearances importance in novels creates a completely new

experience when applied to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Hutchinson, while not

reporting on Stevensons short novel, gives insight on appearances that has the

ability to alter the meaning of fundamental sentences. She conveys this method of

reading with her example of Compton-Burnett, illuminating the technique of how

physical descriptions can hide the truth or reveal it, creating or concealing reality,

but her conveyance is directed towards all readers of literature. When one reads her

essay, any story, and even a phrase, gains new meaning that tells of specifics which

may not be directly perceived in a superficial reading.

Symptoms of Addiction and Dr. Jekylls Exhibitions

Kemp, Ryan, and Butler, Alan. "Love, hate and the emergence of self in addiction

recovery."

Existential Analysis, vol. 25, no. 2, 2014, p. 257+. Literature Resource Center,

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386452750&it=r&asid=7c55e99f3a2acc186ed6807644b5658d. Accessed 6 Nov. 2016.

The article, written by two addiction experts, one of whom an addiction victim who

had recovered, explores the the seeking of self that many addicts, of any kind, find

themselves doing. The anecdote given by the addicted individual revolves around

the feeling of the narrator of having had two identities: a physical body seen by the

outside world, and the thinker who operated the body.

 The article is profound in its detailing of how love and hate affect the recovery

process of addiction, and how double identities commonly cause addictions. That

situation mirrors Dr. Jekylls predicament in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and thus

creates a new layer to the story that was not so clearly defined prior to reading to

this article. The detailing in the essay is educational, and while not being a study on

The Strange Case, makes seemingly insignificant specifics throughout the story hold

much more meaning.

Mr. Hydes Place in Society

Rago, Jane V. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A 'Men's Narrative' of Hysteria and Containment."

Short

Story Criticism, edited by Jelena O. Krstovic, vol. 126, Gale, 2010. Literature Resource

Center, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&u=sant95918&v=2.1&id=

GALE%7CH1420093737&it=r&asid=e7cd17f5d6c3b676aa2d64f4e3693704. Accessed 5

Nov. 2016. Originally published in Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer of Boundaries, edited

by Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, pp.

275-285.

Jane Rago, a contributor to the prestigious collection of analyses Short Story Criticism,

details her findings in her entry to Criticism of how the gentlemen of society frantically

attempt to categorize Mr. Hyde as a creature different than themselves. She dissects the

actions of many respectable men in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and

reveals that their methods of investigating Hydes identity are all attempts at condemning
 him as being deviant from normal status. Rago puts forward that the threat Hyde poses

is not in his deviance, but in his similarities to the gentlemanly society - his double

existence as Dr. Jekyll - and Hyde risks destroying the quiet authority and influence the

aforementioned society possesses and treasures.

Ragos article was directed towards individuals who seek the deepest insights into

literature, as indicated by Ragos extravagant, yet appropriate, diction, as well as her

complicated ideas - and the medium through which this article was conveyed. The work

on the whole was informative, as well as compelling, as evidence was frequent, but not

overdone. Every piece supported its proposition, and the article overall illuminates the

reader through its revelations in Hydes potential of upsetting the

medico-juridico-scientific world.

Dr. Jekylls Unwilling Dependence on Mr. Hyde

Wright, Daniel L. The Prisonhouse of My Disposition: A study of the psychology of addiction

in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Studies in the Novel(Denton), Fall 1994, Vol. 26, Iss. 3, pg.

254. Proquest Learning: Literature, http://literature.proquestlearning.com/quick/

displayMultiItem.do?Multi=yes&ResultsID=1579BEC9DCA&forAuthor=0&QueryNam

e=criticism&ItemNumber=4. Accessed 6 Nov. 2016.

Daniel Wright diagnoses, if it was unclear before, Dr. Jekyll to be an addict - not of the

solution which he consumes to become Mr. Hyde, but to being Mr. Hyde himself. Wright

is clearly an informed essayist, as he avoids jargon in his article but expresses his ideas in

a manner that exudes knowledgeability while still relaying in terms that all can grasp.

The entirety of the article describes and supports how Jekyll is an unknowing - or
unwilling to grasp his being - slave to Mr. Hydes numerous advantages, and exhibits

many, if not all, of the symptoms of having an unrelenting addiction.

Wright depicts Jekylls addiction piece by piece, in a manner that clearly shows the

dependence on every level. To an unknowing reader, Jekyll is a victim of forces he does

not understand; however, Wrights explanations through evidence at every step in the

plot (a means of presentation that is very convincing about its subject) adds another

dimension to the character of Jekyll and elevates the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

overall.