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Chapter 4 - The Double as Duality in Fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2025

Femi Oyebode
Femi Oyebode
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University of Birmingham
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In this chapter, I examine fictional and real-life examples of the double, in which there is no identifiable independent other. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the principal example of this approach. It provides the basis for discussing the real-life examples of Deacon Brodie and William Sharp. Here, the complexity of personality and the possibility of distinct but contradictory aspects of personality are examined.

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeDeacon BrodieWilliam SharpFiona Macleod
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Analysing ‘Doubles' across Antiquity, Fiction, Psychopathology, and Neuroscience
 , pp. 78 - 87
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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