A Discourse Analysis of Lombroso's "Criminal Man" in Stevenson’s "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"

Dossier / Travail , 2014 , 13 Pages

Didactique de l'Anglais - Littérature, Œuvres

The gothic romance Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a great example to show how the fear of degeneration could be portrayed in literature and how these signs could be examined by means of the new developed sciences. Therefore, this seminar paper will focus on a discourse analysis as critical approach in terms of Michel Foucault, to show how the discourses of criminal anthropology and evolutional biology are captured in the novel, in which contexts they are embedded and which functions they could serve.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Degeneration, Atavism and Lombroso’s Criminal Man

3. Edward Hyde and the Criminal Man
3.1 Atavism and Criminality
3.2 Diseases Creating the Criminal Man
3.3 The Environment of the Criminal Man

4. Defining the Source of Victorian Fear

5. Conclusion

6. Works Cited

• Université: Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Auteur: Chris Gebhardt (Auteur)
• Année de publication: 2014
• Pages: 13
• N° de catalogue: V271917
• ISBN (ebook): 9783656639367
• ISBN (Livre): 9783656639312
• Langue: anglais
• mots-clé: discourse, analysis, lombroso, criminal, man”, stevenson’s, strange, case, jekyll, hyde