Gender play in Mark Twain: cross-dressing and transgression
"Explores Mark Twain's use of cross-dressing across his career by exposing the cast of his characters who masqueraded as members of the opposite sex or who otherwise defied gender expectations. Morris grounds her study in an understanding of the era's theatrical cross-dressing and cha...
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
1.
Misplaced Sex
1
2.
Sarah Mary Williams George Elexander Peters
27
3.
Beneath the Veil: Gender Play in Pudd'nhead Wilson
59
4.
Troubling Gender: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
89
5.
Transvestite
Tales
124
Works Cited
167
Index
177
GENDER PLAY in Mark Twain
Cross-Dressing and Transgression
Linda A. Morris
Huckleberry Finn dressing as a girl is
a famously comic scene in Mark Twain's
novel but hardly out of character
—
for the
author, that is. Twain "troubled gender"
in much of his otherwise traditional fiction,
depicting children whose sexual identities
are switched at birth, tomboys, same-sex
married couples, and even a male French
painter who impersonates his own
fictive
sister and becomes engaged to another
man.
This book explores Mark Twain's exten¬
sive use of cross-dressing across his career
by exposing the substantial cast of characters
who masqueraded as members of the op¬
posite sex or who otherwise defied gender
expectations. Linda Morris grounds her
study in an understanding of the era's theat¬
rical cross-dressing and changing mores and
even events in the Clemens household. She
examines and interprets Twain's exploration
of characters who transgress gendered con
ventions while tracing the degree to which
themes of gender disruption interact with
other themes, such as his critique of race,
his concern with death in his classic "boys'
books," and his career-long preoccupation
with twins and twinning.
Approaching familiar texts in surprising
new ways, Morris
reexamines
the relation¬
ship between Huck and Jim; discusses racial
and gender crossing in
Pudcľnhead
Wilson;
and sheds new light on Twain's difficulty
in depicting the most famous cross-dresser
in history, Joan of Arc. She also considers a
number of his later
"transvestite
tales" that
feature transgressive figures such as Hellfire
Hotchkiss, who is hampered by her "mis¬
placed sex."
Morris challenges views of Twain that see
his work as reinforcing traditional notions
of gender along sharply divided lines. She
shows that Twain depicts cross-dressing
sometimes as comic or absurd, other times
as darkly tragic
—
but that even at his most
playful, he contests traditional Victorian no¬
tions about the fixity of gender roles.
Analyzing such characteristics of Twain's
fiction as his fascination with details of
clothing and the ever-present element of
play, Morris shows us his understanding
that gender, like race, is a social construc¬
tion
—
and above all a performance. Gender
¡Чау
in Mark Twain: Cross-Dressing and
Transgression broadens our understanding
of the writer as it lends rich insight into his
works.
About the Author
Linda A. Morris is
Professor Kmcritus of
English at the University
of California-Davis and
lives in Berkeley. She is
the author of Women's
Hinnor
in the Age of
Gentility: 'Ibe Life and
Works of Frances Miriam rh'"°llv
'лшс
t:"hin
Wbitcher and, most recently, editor of
American Women Humorists: Critical
Essa
vs.
Mark Twain and His Circle Series
Tom Quirk, Hditor
J.ukci dr\u;n
Ь\
І |
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
1.
Misplaced Sex
1
2.
Sarah Mary Williams George Elexander Peters
27
3.
Beneath the Veil: Gender Play in Pudd'nhead Wilson
59
4.
Troubling Gender: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
89
5.
Transvestite
Tales
124
Works Cited
167
Index
177
GENDER PLAY in Mark Twain
Cross-Dressing and Transgression
Linda A. Morris
Huckleberry Finn dressing as a girl is
a famously comic scene in Mark Twain's
novel but hardly out of character
—
for the
author, that is. Twain "troubled gender"
in much of his otherwise traditional fiction,
depicting children whose sexual identities
are switched at birth, tomboys, same-sex
married couples, and even a male French
painter who impersonates his own
fictive
sister and becomes engaged to another
man.
This book explores Mark Twain's exten¬
sive use of cross-dressing across his career
by exposing the substantial cast of characters
who masqueraded as members of the op¬
posite sex or who otherwise defied gender
expectations. Linda Morris grounds her
study in an understanding of the era's theat¬
rical cross-dressing and changing mores and
even events in the Clemens household. She
examines and interprets Twain's exploration
of characters who transgress gendered con
ventions while tracing the degree to which
themes of gender disruption interact with
other themes, such as his critique of race,
his concern with death in his classic "boys'
books," and his career-long preoccupation
with twins and twinning.
Approaching familiar texts in surprising
new ways, Morris
reexamines
the relation¬
ship between Huck and Jim; discusses racial
and gender crossing in
Pudcľnhead
Wilson;
and sheds new light on Twain's difficulty
in depicting the most famous cross-dresser
in history, Joan of Arc. She also considers a
number of his later
"transvestite
tales" that
feature transgressive figures such as Hellfire
Hotchkiss, who is hampered by her "mis¬
placed sex."
Morris challenges views of Twain that see
his work as reinforcing traditional notions
of gender along sharply divided lines. She
shows that Twain depicts cross-dressing
sometimes as comic or absurd, other times
as darkly tragic
—
but that even at his most
playful, he contests traditional Victorian no¬
tions about the fixity of gender roles.
Analyzing such characteristics of Twain's
fiction as his fascination with details of
clothing and the ever-present element of
play, Morris shows us his understanding
that gender, like race, is a social construc¬
tion
—
and above all a performance. Gender
¡Чау
in Mark Twain: Cross-Dressing and
Transgression broadens our understanding
of the writer as it lends rich insight into his
works.
About the Author
Linda A. Morris is
Professor Kmcritus of
English at the University
of California-Davis and
lives in Berkeley. She is
the author of Women's
Hinnor
in the Age of
Gentility: 'Ibe Life and
Works of Frances Miriam rh'"°llv
'лшс
t:"hin
Wbitcher and, most recently, editor of
American Women Humorists: Critical
Essa
vs.
Mark Twain and His Circle Series
Tom Quirk, Hditor
J.ukci dr\u;n
Ь\
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