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"First published in 1886 as a 'shilling shocker, ' 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' takes the basic struggle between good and evil and adds to the mix bourgeois respectability, urban violence, and class conflict. The result is a tale that has taken on the force of myth in the popular imagination. This Broadview edition provides a selection of contextual material, including contemporary reviews of the novel, Stevenson's essay 'A Chapter on Dreams, ' and excerpts...
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"Broadview has done it again. Joseph Dimuro's expertly assembled edition of Henry Blake Fuller's The Cliff-Dwellers places this important novel--one of the first representations of the modern American city--in a set of productive and provocative historical, literary, visual, and socio-cultural contexts. Dimuro's introduction and carefully selected appendices connect Fuller and his text with contemporary currents in literary realism, turn-of-the-century...
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