Edenborough

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  • Edinburgh → continuing the Scottish theme of this paragraph initiated by the references to Tobias Smollett's novels → Edinburgh is the setting for James Hogg's novel Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), in which the protagonist is possessed by a devil called Gilmartin; in FW all characters have a tendency to split into multiple personalities; the female characters are usually treated as psychological cases of dissociated personalities, whereas the male characters usually suffer from demonic possession (which is probably just a primitive way of interpreting personality dissociation) → although set in London, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by a native of Edinburgh; it has been compared to Hogg's novel
  • Eden: the Garden of Eden was also possessed by a demon
  • Eden Quay and Burgh Quay: two quays on the Liffey in Dublin which face each other, thus symbolizing the city's split personalities (the Northside and the Southside)