WiSe 23/24: PS-Surveying English Literatures: Renegotiating Jekyll and Hyde
Cordula Lemke
Kommentar
Scottish folk tales have always been haunted by ghosts, witches or the devil – and these creatures haunt Scottish literature up to this day. One of the most persistent is the Doppelgänger. It has always been fascinating to writers, but it certainly reached a peak in the nineteenth century. In this period of high moral standards and utilitarian business acumen, questions of how to distinguish between good and evil became more and more pertinent to society – and incidents where moral categories collapsed were as much feared as a financial break-down. In this seminar we will start with the most famous pair, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, before looking at their successors in Emma Tennant's Two Women of London and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. We will also try and trace their history on film.
Texts:
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Emma Tennant, Two Women of London
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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