记者：张文慧
5月30日晚上七点，本学期外教博士论坛第一场“潜藏的问题😬：从史蒂文森的 《化身博士》的书中透视英国维多利亚时代后期的社会状况”在丽泽楼D406如期举行，本次主讲人是来自九游会平台的外籍教师Dr. Phillip Stevenson，听众主要为来自研究生院各专业的研究生。
讲座开始👨🏻，Dr. Phillip Stevenson将他喜欢的一本书——《化身博士》分享给在座热爱英语的同学们。Dr. Phillip Stevenson先对书的作者做了些简单的介绍👨🏫，后说明了一些关于此书的写作背景，和书中多处隐藏的反映英国维多利亚时代后期的一些社会状况的暗示👨🏻🏫。如当时英国低下阶层的妓女、贩卖人口事件以及当时百姓的惶恐和不安等等的状况。Dr. Phillip Stevenson把自己读完书后的切身感受详尽地述说给同学们🛂，当说到一些精彩的故事情节时😿，在座同学都不由屏住了呼吸🤦🏽♂️。
最后，Dr. Phillip Stevenson再次的介绍了读这本书的意义所在👰🏼♂️，并希望同学们能通过看原文书来了解更多英国的历史社会状况以及提高英语水平。讲座结束，Dr. Phillip Stevenson还留在教室🏌🏿，与众多同学进行更深入的探讨🤷🏻♂️。
A Lecture: Hyde-ing the problem:
what Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hydetells us about late Victorian Britain.
By ZHANG Wenhui
At 7 p.m. on May 30th, Dr. Phillip Stevenson held a lecture entitled “Hyde-ing the problem: what Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde tells us about late Victorian Britain." in Lize D406. The audiences were the postgraduate students from different schools.
In today’s lecture, Dr. Phillip Stevenson shared one of his most favorite books Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with the students. At first, he briefly introduced the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, whose novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is widely accepted as one of the most important literary works of the nineteenth century. Then he made a simple introduction to the book. In the book Jekyll and Hyde personality, it describes a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to another. Dr. Phillip Stevenson analyzed the condition of British society in the late Victorian-era through the book: the feeling of fears and anxieties, the hiding of transgressive acts and impulses, and the unpleasant truths that laid beneath the surface of Victorian civilization, etc.
Finally, Dr. Phillip Stevenson emphasized that it’s very meaningful to read the original version of this book, which could provide a better understand of British society in the late Victorian-era. After the lecture, Dr. Phillip Stevenson stayed in the classroom and had a further discussion with the students.
