Article: Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain.

In "The Decay of Lying: An Observation" (1889; rev. 1891), Oscar Wilde writes that "the transformation of Dr Jekyll reads dangerously like an experiment out of the Lancet." (1) This statement rings true on more levels than Wilde himself probably realized. Not only does Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) resemble contemporary medical case studies in its form and structure, but its core idea may also have originated from medical literature. In her 1905 introduction to Stevenson's collected works, Fanny Osbourne Stevenson traces her spouse's interest in dual personality to a specific scientific article: "[M]y husband was deeply impressed ...

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