‘The Shadow and the Law’: Stevenson, Nabokov and Dostoevsky

Abstract

Discusses Vladimir Nabokov\u27s comments in lectures at Cornell praising Robert Louis Stevenson\u27s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde while condemning Fyodor Dostoevsky\u27s Crime and Punishment, and compares the two novels\u27 treatment of the double in their central character with Nabokov\u27s Humbert Humbert in Lolita

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