Abstract
The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), by Robert Louis Stevenson, reviews, innovates and broadens the tradition of the double, which was initiated by E. T. A. Hoffmann and articulated in his short story "The Sandman" ("Der Sandmann", 1816), developed later by Edgar Allan Poe in the short story "William Wilson" (1839) …