Dark twins : imposture and identity in Mark Twain's America
by
 
Gillman, Susan Kay

Title
: 
Dark twins : imposture and identity in Mark Twain's America

Author
: 
Gillman, Susan Kay

Personal Author
: 
Gillman, Susan Kay

Publication Information
: 
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Physical Description
: 
ix, 217 pages ; 24 cm

Contents
: 
Introduction: Mark Twain in context -- Imposture and the "littery man" -- Racial identity in Pudd'nhead Wilson and those extraordinary twins -- Tales of secual identity: female fathers and male impersonators -- The dream writings and the cosmic consciousness -- Dress reform and copyright.

Personal Subject
: 
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910-Criticism and interpretation.
 
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910-Knowledge-America.
 
Twain, Mark 1835-1910
 
Twain, Mark (1835-1910). he adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 
Twain, Mark, (1835-1910)-Psychologie.
 
Twain, Mark.

Subject Term
: 
Doubles in literature
 
Psychological fiction, American
 
Humorous stories, American
 
National characteristics, American, in literature
 
Impostors and imposture in literature
 
Identity (Psychology) in literature
 
Psychoanalysis and literature
 
Split self in literature

Geographic Term
: 
United States -- In literature

Genre
: 
Criticism, interpretation, etc

Electronic Access
: 
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/88021802-t.html
 
Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780226293868.pdf
 
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/88021802-d.html

ISBN
: 
9780226293868
 
9780226293875


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