A Discourse Analysis of Lombroso's Criminal Man in Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature Works Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg language: English abstract: The gothic romance Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a great example to show how the fear of degeneration could be portrayed in literature and how these signs could be examined by means of the new developed sciences. Therefore this seminar paper will focus on a discourse analysis as critical approach in terms of Michel Foucault to show how the discourses of criminal anthropology and evolutional biology are captured in the novel in which contexts they are embedded and which functions they could serve.