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Welcome!Short Courses Online Summer Sessions
‘Making Literary Connections: Stevenson’s Edinburgh
and Jekyll and Hyde’with Dr Anya Clayworth
The session will start at 19:00 BST.
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8 Howard Place, Edinburgh
Stevenson’s work using Edinburgh as a setting
Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh Picturesque Notes (1878)
‘But Edinburgh pays cruelly for her high seat in one of the vilest climates under heaven. She is liable to be beaten upon by all winds that blow, to be drenched with rain, to be buried in cold sea fogs out of the east, and powdered with snow as it comes flying southward from the Highland hills. The delicate die early, and I, as a survivor, among bleak winds and plumping rain, have sometimes been tempted to envy them their fate.’
Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh Picturesque Notes(1878)
‘And yet Edinburgh establishes an interest in people’s hearts; go where they will, they will find no city of the same distinction.’
17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh
The Stevenson bathroom in 17 Heriot Row, now a bespoke B&B
Alison Cunningham (1822-1913)
Warriston Cemetery Edinburgh
Stevenson as he looked as a student at Edinburgh University
RLS as a trainee advocate
Stevenson and Treasure Island
The inspiration for Stevenson’s iconic pirate Long John Silver from Treasure Island and the pirate he inspired…
Stevenson’s period of intense literary activity 1885-1886
Statue of Alan Breck and David Balfour in Corstorphine, Edinburgh
RLS aboard the Casco
RLS and household in Samoa (1894)
Bronze memorial to RLS, designed by his friend, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1904)
Manuscript of Chapter 10: ‘Henry Jekyll’s Full statement of the Case’Image courtesy of Pierpont Morgan Library
‘Maybe self-preservation led him to set the novel in London rather than in Edinburgh.’
Ian Rankin, ‘On The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ in The Guardian 16 Aug. 2010
Deacon Brodie’s cabinet in the Edinburgh Writers’ Museum
Major Thomas Weir’s house in West Bow, Edinburgh
The Dean Bridge c.1880
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Discussion topics
• Stevenson’s exploration of duality in:
- character - place- philosophy
• Stevenson’s use of silence in the novel
‘With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.’
Jekyll and Hyde ‘Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case’
Duality: character
‘Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.’
Jekyll and Hyde ‘Story of the Door’
Duality: place‘The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the weekdays. The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus of their grains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen. Even on Sunday, when it veiled its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of passage, the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest; and with its freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger.
Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was two storeys high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence. The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained. Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels; children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings; and for close on a generation, no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages.’
Jekyll and Hyde ‘Story of the Door’
Duality: philosophy‘With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.’
Jekyll and Hyde ‘Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case’
‘…I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil. It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together—that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling. How, then were they dissociated?’
Jekyll and Hyde ‘Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case’
Silence‘Mr. Utterson sighed deeply but said never a word; and the young man presently resumed. “Here is another lesson to say nothing,” said he. “I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again.”’
Jekyll and Hyde ‘Story of the Door’
‘But Mr. Enfield only nodded his head very seriously, and walked on once more in silence.’Jekyll and Hyde ‘Incident at the Window’
‘The lawyer put it in his pocket. “I would say nothing of this paper. If your master has fled or is dead, we may at least save his credit. It is now ten; I must go home and read these documents in quiet; but I shall be back before midnight, when we shall send for the police.”’
Jekyll and Hyde ‘The Last Night’
‘Into the details of the infamy at which I thus connived (for even now I can scarce grant that I committed it) I have no design of entering; I mean but to point out the warnings and the successive steps with which my chastisement approached.’
Jekyll and Hyde ‘Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case’
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Book sculpture by an unknown artist, made from a copy of Ian Rankin’s Knots and Crosses (1987) left in the Edinburgh Writers’ Museum accompanied by a quotation from Jekyll and Hyde: ‘commingled out of Good and Evil.’
