Простори и страхови викторијанског друштва у Стивенсовом Џекилу и Хајду, Вајлдовој Слици Доријана Греја и Стокеровом Дракули
SPACES AND VICTORIAN FEARS IN STEVENSON’S JEKYLL AND HYDE, WILDE’S THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, AND STOKER’S DRACULA

Summary/Abstract: In late Victorian Gothic fiction, space as setting plays a central role not only in the creation of atmosphere but also in articulating the profound cultural anxieties that haunted British society at the close of the nineteenth century. The interplay of spatial representation, duality, and fears of degeneration, as well as the permeability of physical, moral, and psychological boundaries, emerges as a defining feature of Gothic fiction from this period. With their focus on the uncanny, the transgressive, and the destabilisation of identity, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and Dracula by Bram Stoker function as powerful literary vehicles for expressing such concerns. In these three works, late Victorian anxieties surrounding physical, moral, cultural, and national decline are intertwined with Gothic spaces to expose the porousness of identity and the fragility of social order. From the Transylvanian castle to the labyrinthine streets at the heart of the British Empire, and domestic interiors to hidden chambers, Gothic spaces serve as vivid indicators of the pervasive societal fears of the 1880s and 1890s.

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