时间：5月30日 星期四晚上7:00-8:30

地点：丽泽D406

题目：Hyde-ing the problem: what Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde tells us about late Victorian Britain.

演讲人：Dr. Phillip Stevenson

Dr. Phillip Stevenson comes from Northern Ireland, and has lived and taught in England, Japan, and China. Phillip was awarded a PhD in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent in 2011, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Rod Edmond. To date Phillip’s academic research has been centered in the space between nineteenth-century literature and colonial and postcolonial studies, with his PhD thesis ''Robert Louis Stevenson: Identity and Ideology in the Late Victorian British Empire'' typical of his research interests. In that thesis Phillip examined Stevenson’s engagement with issues of personal, sexual, and political identity, contextualising it within the social and ideological climate of the late Victorian era.

As a Stevenson specialist Phillip has published, lectured, and presented conference papers on a variety of aspects of the writer’s work. Phillip’s other research interests include the Imperial Romance; concepts of ''Islandness'' in colonial and postcolonial literature; and the New Weird. At present he is conducting research on topics including homosexuality in Stevenson''s fiction, and Christian symbolism and cannibalism as a transmission vector of identity in the New Weird.

In his free time Phillip enjoys reading, listening to music, playing the guitar, and socialising.

演讲内容简介:

Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is widely accepted as one of the most important literary works of the nineteenth century. So great is its impact that it has given the English language the common phrase ‘Jekyll and Hyde personality’, meaning a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. In this lecture Dr. Phillip Stevenson – no relation -- will talk about what Stevenson’s novella tells us about British society in the late Victorian-era: the fears and anxieties they felt, the transgressive acts and impulses they hid, and the unpleasant truths that lay beneath the veneer of Victorian civilisation.

In order to best appreciate the lecture Dr. Stevenson recommends prior reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, either in the original or translation.