Law Department panel discussion
Date: Saturday 13 February 2010
Time: 11am-12.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Mary Evans, Professor Nicola Lacey, Robert Mighall, Professor Juliet Mitchell
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde develops an extraordinarily rich intersection between literary fiction, legal norms and the scientific imagination. This panel discussion brings together legal academics, psychoanalytical theorists and specialists in nineteenth-century literature in a conversation focused on the historical and cultural significance themes in the novel. The discussion will span the emergence of the new science of criminology, late nineteenth-century anxieties about the permeability of social divisions, the consistency of scientific and popular theories of monstrosity, degeneration and depravity, and Stevenson’s dismay that he had been turned into a professional author by the success of Jekyll and Hyde .
Mary Evans is a Visiting Professor in Sociology and Gender at LSE. Her most recent book The Pursuit of Evil: Detective Fiction and the Modern World (Continuum Books 2009) is a study of the changing imagination of difference, in the context of competing moralities and politics within detective and crime fiction. Nicola Lacey is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at LSE, and author of Women, crime, and character: from Moll Flanders to Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Robert Mighall is the author of A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction (OUP, 1999), and has introduced and edited the Penguin Classics editions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Juliet Mitchell is a British Psychoanalyst and socialist feminist, who is currently a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at Cambridge University.
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