Dark Twins Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America

Name: Dark Twins Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America
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ISBN: 9780226293868

ISBN-10: 0226293866

ISBN-13: 9780226293868

Edition: 1989

Authors: Susan Gillman

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"Many persons have such a horror of being taken in," wrote P. T. Barnum, "that they believe themselves to be a sham and are continually humbugging themselves." Mark Twain enjoyed trading on that horror, as the many confidence men, assumed identities, and disguised characters in his fiction attest. In Dark Twins, Susan Gillman challenges the widely held assumption that Twain's concern with identity is purely biographical and argues that what has been regarded as a problem of individual psychology must be located instead within American society around the turn of the century. Drawing on Twain's whole writing career, but focusing on the controversial late period of social "pessimism" and…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 228
Language: English

Susan Gillman is professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Mark Twain in Context



Imposture and the ""Littery Man""



Racial Identity in Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins



Tales of Sexual Identity: Female Fathers and Male Impersonators



The Dream Writings and the Cosmic Consciousness



Dress Reform and Copyright


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Notes


Index