Martin A. Danahay is Professor of English at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario.
"Danahay provides an authoritative text, an excellent introductory
commentary, an up to date bibliography, and a well-chosen set of
contextualizing appendices. For an in-depth understanding of
Stevenson's masterpiece of horror this is the text of
choice."--Patrick Brantlinger
"Danahay's edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde places that text in a
variety of important and enriching contexts, using selections from
Stevenson's letters and other relevant works, as well as
contemporary reviews and responses (including a Punch parody and an
early adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde for the stage). The appendices
also connect Stevenson's novel with Victorian thought about
psychology, criminality, degeneracy, and urban life. Providing a
splendid, brief immersion in late Victorian culture, this edition
will be a boon to the classroom or to an individual's private
enjoyment of this classic tale."--Gordon Hirsch
"Martin Danahay's edition justifies our on-going admiration for
this masterpiece of English literature. The appendices offer
students and scholars alike interesting and important insights into
the cultural context of the novel."--Patricia O'Neill
"Martin Danahay's edition of Jekyll and Hyde is a treasure-trove of
biographical, cultural, and historical materials. It makes a number
of important contexts for interpretation available through its
accessible but intriguing assemblage of ancillary documents. It
cannot fail to be the inspiration for deeper investigations of a
masterpiece that is itself at the crossroads of Victorian anxieties
about sex, class, psychology, evolution, and the rise of popular
culture."--John Kucich
"The appendices to this edition offer the reader a splendid sense
of the book's cultural background. Especially interesting are the
selections from nineteenth-century psychology. The discussions
concerning the nature of dreaming and the concept of the
'double-brain' add an intriguing dimension to one's understanding
of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."--Ann C. Colley, author of Robert Louis
Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination
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