This paper considers the Victorian novel as a narrative method, and reads for common practices in three novels - Jane Eyre, A Mill on the Floss, and Tess of the d'Ubervilles. Themes that identify the Victorian novel are discussed, and then compare to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson is not so much criticizing the Victorian novel as he is perhaps criticizing the middle-class who read and write in the tradition of the Victorian novel. 4 pgs. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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