The Effects of Scientific Manipulation on Humans: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson’s best-known novel is a mystery story of the kind highly popular at the time of its publication. Its mystery story features are clear from its title, language and plot, but the novel is also about the effects of scientific manipulation on humans: as such, it raised (and it still raises) ethical problems that owed much to contemporary neurological and psychological research (Lombroso). The story also reflects the ‘fear of the other’ so prominent in late Victorian Britain, which also shows in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.




Arturo Cattaneo is Full Professor of English Literature at the Catholic University of Milan. He did post-graduate research at the Warburg Institute, London, on the influence and transformations of the classics in the English Renaissance; in this field he has written, besides several essays, a book on the Earl of Surrey (L’ideale umanistico. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 1991) and a book-length study of the first English translations of the Aeneid (Tecniche traduttive nell’Umanesimo: l’Eneide in Gran Bretagna, 1990).

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