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The True Story Behind the Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Trent English professor Dr. Stephen Brown is studying historical journals and texts that detail the events of the criminal trial for a man named William Brodie. In the late 1700s, Brodie—a man from a family in Edinburgh’s upper society with a good day job—was caught, tried and hanged for serial theft, and inspired the 1886 horror story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. But this story is not just about an interesting character. The scale of the trial and resulting texts offer insight into key social and cultural factors emerging during the late 18th century that would catapult Brodie into both fame and infamy.
In the video, Professor Brown explains the thrilling tale told in these hundreds-of-years-old trial journals and the fascinating traits of Brodie’s character. You can also hear Prof. Brown discuss the story of William Brodie and its history in depth on an episode of the History Channel’s podcast, History This Week.
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Jim Burden is one of the great narrators in literature. As a big city attorney, he recounts the story of growing up on the plains of Nebraska with Àntonia Shimerda. Jim’s Virginia parents have died, leaving his Nebraskan grandparents the responsibility of raising a ten-year old boy. Jim arrives in Black Hawk, Nebraska on a train also carrying the Shimerdas. The beauty of this initial connection between Jim and Àntonia, four years his elder, is a beautiful part of the overall structure of Cather’s first “masterpiece.” The star, of course, is not Jim, but Àntonia who, even after losing her youthful beauty, has “that something which fires the imagination” and which can “stop one’s breath for a moment by a look or a gesture that somehow reveal[s] the meaning of common things.” Cather does not just tell us this. Throughout My Àntonia, she demonstrates this fact in brilliantly conceived vignettes. As counterweight (or alter ego) to the brilliant Àntonia, Cather gives us the equally compelling prairie of the western United States. Cather’s concluding novel in her “prairie trilogy” was, as much as anything else, “a sort of love story of the country”, as her friend Edith Lewis described it.
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