ENG324Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Racism, Michel Foucault, Robert Louis Stevenson
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The strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. Born in a middle class scottish family. Plagued by ill health throughout his life. His nurse influenced him with her folk beliefs and calvinist thinking while he was young. Celebrity during his lifetime, but relegated to genre fiction by modernists. Set in industrial and/or post industrial cities. 18th century gothic: displaces into the past and/or other countries. Domesticates the gothic by bringing it into victorian england and into the home (usually a country house) in the 1880s, brings the gothic into the city (primarily london) Industrialization brought with it new, urban social relations. It is not just that the horror happens in the city; the city is part of the horror. People do not know each other, fog, empty. P. 49 description of hyde"s house it is multicultural but women going to drink and not taking care of their children. Fog hides things/what is hidden the city becomes its own other.
