Citizen Hyde: Cosmopolitan Contradictions in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
As the British empire slowly crumbled at the end of the nineteenth century, London was inundated with countless new residents, raising paranoia about crime that was presumed to originate with newcomers to the city who lived outside the presumed social mores of English gentlemen. Robert Louis Stevens...
| Publicado en: | Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 97 - 105 |
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Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
2021
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