The Monster in “Frankenstein” and Edward Hyde: Eugenics and the Politics of Appearance

Lennard J Davis, in the introduction to The Disability Studies Reader, argued that the growth of the pseudoscience of Eugenics was primarily founded on the concept of 'normality' and its related implications in nineteenth-century Europe. The fictional character of Edward Hyde in R.L Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde best illustrates