Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an example of late Gothic fiction. Much of Robert Louis Stevenson’s oeuvre fell broadly within the Romantic genre, and references to Romanticism are especially clear in his novels and longer works like Kidnapped and Treasure Island. Gothic literature is an off-shoot of Romanticism and began in the mid-18th century, continuing well into the Victorian period.