Jekyll & Hyde Urban Analysis Model
London
London
A close reading of "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," the novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886, reveals the decisive role architecture, and in particular the urban enclaves of Victorian London, plays in revealing the plot and characters of the story. The Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov even lectured on Stevenson's piece, with one of his students producing a plan drawing of the layout of Dr. Jekyll's house and surrounding streets (Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature (San Diego: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1982), pg.187). This project uses Collage in the Architecture Model as a vehicle to interrogate the differing spatial understandings of the two titular characters of the novella.
