Unlike previous efforts that have only addressed literary twinship as a footnote to the doppelganger motif, this book makes a case for the complexity of literary twinship across the literary spectrum. It shows how twins have been instrumental to the formation of comedies of mistaken identity, the de...

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1. Verfasser:	Schwanebeck, Wieland 1984- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Schriftenreihe:	Literary criticism and cultural theory
Schlagworte:	Twins in literature Zwilling > Motiv Literatur Englisch Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	Unlike previous efforts that have only addressed literary twinship as a footnote to the doppelganger motif, this book makes a case for the complexity of literary twinship across the literary spectrum. It shows how twins have been instrumental to the formation of comedies of mistaken identity, the detective genre, and dystopian science fiction. The individual chapters trace the development of the category of twinship over time, demonstrating how the twin was repeatedly (re-)invented as a cultural and pathological type when other discursive fields constituted themselves, and how its literary treatment served as the battleground for ideological disputes: by setting the stage for debates regarding kinship and reproduction, or by partaking in discussions of criminality, eugenic greatness, and "monstrous births". The book addresses nearly 100 primary texts, including works of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Priest, William Shakespeare, and Zadie Smith.
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 245 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781003005797 9781000032673 9781000032734 9781000032703
DOI:	10.4324/9781003005797