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Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning (Paperback)
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Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning (Paperback)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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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.
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