... theme in the 19th century gothic and it is one of the literary myths' produced by the desire of otherness' during that period. Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is perhaps one of the most famous examples of 19th century literature of the double' in which an individual is split into two or more contrasting personalities ... is alive-. Since the term primarily assumes that the word refers to two separate entities, I think it can be rejected in this context, thought it is widely used in literary criticism. Like Doppelganger, the term double calls upon ambig...

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