... 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 or haunted by a shadow' figure who may be a repressed part ... of himself. Even though the novel can be read in a number of ways, I aim at, via quotes from the text, showing that the novel is neither about two different people or even two people that dwell inside one man, but one man with...

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