EAN: 9783906769684

THE DOUBLE IN THE FICTION OF R L STEVENSON WILK...

Robert Louis Stevenson  Wilkie Collins and Daphne du Maurier are authors of particular
importance to the literature of the double  having produced  among other works  The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  The Woman in White and Rebecca. Each also rejected the
prevailing social order of his or her time  a factor that plays an important role in
determining how the double is represented and treated. The literary theory of romance narrative
structure follows the hero's journey through a dark 'descent' to a happier 'ascent'  but this
journey is shown to apply to a largely masculine identity. On the other hand  the rise of the
female persona and her relation to the double is a progression that is clearly charted through
the works of Stevenson  Collins and du Maurier. It shows an extraordinary alteration in the
structure of traditional romance narrative  and leads to an exploration of new ways in which
the imprisoned female character may be able to free herself and become whole.

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