The Transforming Draught
Subtitle: Jekyll And Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson And the Victorian Alcohol Debate
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: August 4, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780786426485
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; World - General; Horror tales, Scottish; Film & Video - General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; History and criticism; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Books & Reading; Alcoholism in literature; Symbolism in literature
Description: "This book investigates Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as an allegory of alcoholism--an interpretation that cultural change and the story's renown have perhaps obscured. The author examines patterns of language, plot, characterization and imagery to reveal how mind-altering drink figures as the story's subtext. An appendix further investigates the elements of Stevenson's language"--Provided by publisher.