Attractiveness of Gothic villains : an exploration of sexuality and monstrosity in gothic fiction.

• Main Author: Tan, Faith Chew Jing.
• Other Authors: Tamara Silvia Wagner
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46355; http://hdl.handle.net/10356/47570
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Gothic notion of villainy is both necessary and significant, making it very complex and elusive. Mr. Hyde, when introduced to us in the opening chapter of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is guilty of committing a heinous crime: “[T]he man trampled calmly ove...