This thesis is a queer analysis of two graphic novels by writer Alan Moore: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series (art by Kevin O’Neill, 1999-Present) and Lost Girls (art by Melinda Gebbie, 1992-3). These two works re-contextualize familiar characters such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mina Murray, and Alice to uncover both the liberating desires and the sexist, homophobic, and imperialistic anxieties underlining historically popular fiction. Focusing on three characters utilized in Moore’s work, this thesis argues that the ideological associations with those chosen characters and the reconstructions of queerness in their narratives offer contemporary subjects resistance to limiting cultural tendencies and create an alternative space that call attention to phobic societal constructs. Both Lost Girls and the League series redefine discursively constituted identities and offer the potential to re-write normative codes of sex and sexuality.

O objeto de estudo deste trabalho são as refrações da obra The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, do escritor escocês Robert Louis Stevenson, publicada pela primeira vez em 1886 e, em particular, suas traduções, adaptações e reescritas em língua portuguesa. Além dos teóricos da Tradução e da Literatura, esta tese procurou reunir as opiniões e os pensamentos de pesquisadores e escritores que analisaram Jekyll and Hyde. O objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi elencar as obras publicadas em língua portuguesa e o objetivo específico foi analisar algumas dessas traduções, pela montagem de um corpus paralelo de textos alinhados, à luz dos aspectos levantados nas edições anotadas. A partir do material coletado e analisado, concluímos que o livro The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde está presente na mente dos brasileiros, não só por suas traduções em língua portuguesa, mas também pelas demais formas de refração que a obra suscitou / The object of this study are the refractions of the work The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, penned by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and published for the first time in 1886 and, in particular the translations, adaptations and revisions of this work in the Portuguese language. Apart from the theorists in the fields of Translation and Literature, this thesis has also tried to gather the opinions and the thoughts of different researchers and writers who have analysed Jekyll and Hyde. The general aim of this research was that of listing the works currently available in Portuguese, while the specific purpose of this study was that of analysing some of these translations, followed by the creation of a parallel corpus of aligned texts, based on the aspects we have observed in the listed editions. Based on the material that has been collected and analysed, we come to the conclusion that the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is very much present in Brazilians minds, not only through the translations thereof into the Portuguese language, but also through the other types of refractions that the work has aroused

Uppsatsens syfte är att göra en berättarteknisk analys av olika konflikter i Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde av Robert L. Stevenson. De konflikter som undersöks är bland annat om Dr. Jekyll är en opålitlig berättare och vilka etiska funderingar detta kan väcka kring den klassiska hjälterollen som vanligtvis finns i berättelser. Den narratologiska analysen utgår från Gérard Genettes teorier om berättarteknik. Metoden utgår från Greimas aktantmodell och är grundad på textanalys. Tidigare forskning har undersökt hur identitet delvis kan skapas genom narrativ/berättande. Tidigare forskning har även ifrågasatt Dr. Jekylls roll som hjälte och visat på att han inte är en god person trots att doktorn försöker framställa sig som oskyldig genom sitt narrativ. Resultatet av analysen har visat att det finns perspektivbyten som är avgörande för tolkningen av Dr. Jekylls roll som antingen protagonist eller antagonist. Resultatet har också visat att Dr. Jekyll inte är en pålitlig berättare, då han undanhåller information. Jekylls motsägelsefulla narrativ avslöjar slutligen hans sanna karaktär som antagonist och som offer för sin egen ondska.

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Literature and medicine are not usually seen as related disciplines, but scholars have already begun producing fruitful scholarship regarding historical and aesthetic interactions between them. This thesis adds to that scholarship by examining medicine and literature in nineteenth-century Britain. More specifically, Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both use nineteenth-century medical case conventions to tell their stories. Furthermore, because both works deal with addiction, divided selves, and the power that physical substances can have on morality and character, these two works provide an excellent comparison coming 65 years apart. As such, they are a great point from which to begin looking more closely at how the interactions between medicine and literature evolved during the nineteenth-century in Britain. This thesis examines the role that "scientific" discourse has played in medicine and literature as interpretive disciplines, the rhetorical techniques and innovations surrounding the intersection of the two disciplines, and the authority that each discipline derived by implicitly borrowing ideological assumptions and textual forms from the other. Confessions is a wonderful example of a Romantic, autobiographical text that clearly uses the medical case study conventions; in fact, De Quincey was often cited in the years following the publication of Confessions as an authority on opium and its uses. By the time Jekyll and Hyde was published, however, a work like Confessions could no longer hold its own in medical debates. The professional institutions of medicine and literature had changed too much. Hence, by analyzing these two works side-by-side, I intend to illustrate different narrative approaches to similar issues at the beginning and end of the century. More importantly, I hope to use these texts in conjunction with specific medical case histories to discuss each text's reliance on interdisciplinary authority.

At first glance, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a tale that reinforces binaries. One of these is the self/other binary that is central to David Hume's and Adam Smith's theories of sympathy that conceive of a self imaginatively identifying and experiencing fellow-feeling for an other. However, this notion is complicated because Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. Further, many critics argue that Stevenson actually challenges binary thinking. While Hume and Smith do not challenge the self/other binary in connection with sympathy, trauma theory critics do challenge a self/other binary that lies at the heart of sympathy: the victim/perpetrator binary. Noted trauma theorist Dominick LaCapra develops a method of empathizing called empathic unsettlement where a secondary witness listens with empathy to a victim's traumatic witness while recognizing the difference of his or her position as a witness. He argues that perpetrators may also warrant understanding, but this understanding does not come through empathy. However, one of the hallmarks of empathic unsettlement is that it does not neatly resolve or replace traumatic narratives. Therefore, I argue that empathic unsettlement could also be a useful method for allowing a perpetrator to witness. While practicing empathic unsettlement for a perpetrator may not be worth the risk in real life, performing a thought experiment in literature can test how using empathy might provide a better way to theorize perpetration. Using two witnesses who attempt to practice empathic unsettlement for Jekyll and Hyde, Dr. Hastie Lanyon (who fails), and Mr. Gabriel John Utterson (who succeeds), I will show how empathic unsettlement could be used for both a victim and perpetrator to tease out the complexities of assessing a traumatic situation.

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M.A. (English) / Victorian studies is a field much-studied and, during the century that has passed since the end of Queen Victoria‘s reign, literary criticism on the subject has been extensive. In the main, however, criticism has tended to focus on the protagonists of Victorian novels, whether to argue that their journeys are immoral, or represent a warning against immorality, or to examine their behaviour and so arrive at conclusions regarding identity. Through a close reading of Oscar Wilde‘s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Robert Louis Stevenson‘s The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Bram Stoker‘s Dracula (1897), and by focussing on the reactions and responses of Victorian society (as the texts represent it) to the novel‘s transgressive characters rather than on those characters themselves (as has been the trend) this dissertation moves away from readings of duality and moral judgment and towards a greater understanding of the intricacies of late-Victorian society itself. In addition, and through this process, this dissertation interrogates the bifurcated and contradictory nature of the Victorian moral structure and destabilizes the binary oppositions of character judgment that were so fundamental in its creation. Furthermore, through a discussion of the historical context of the text‘s chosen for this study, this dissertation challenges the formulation and authenticity of Victorian morality by considering the manner in which power informed the behaviour and decisions of middle-class Victorians at the turn of the century. To this end, I will consider how the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche, especially those pertaining to power and morality, are invaluable in problematizing the binary system of categorization that so dominated the late-Victorian cultural space. Finally, I argue that the texts I have elected to study represent a climate of unrest and dissatisfaction with the Victorian moral climate at the fin de siècle (or turn of the century) and that they are instrumental in our understanding of that moral climate and the subsequent changes to it.

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