Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning

ISBN-13: 9781032239019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

Wieland Schwanebeck

Opis

Unlike previous efforts that only addressed twinship as a footnote to the doppelganger, this book makes a case for the complexity of literary twinship across the literary spectrum, showing how twins have been instrumental to the formation of comedies of mistaken identity, the detective genre, and dystopian science fiction.

Spis treści

Introducing twins

Conceiving twins

Confusing twins

Appropriating twins

Detecting twins

Multiplying twins

Untangling twins

O autorze

Wieland Schwanebeck is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and American Studies at TU Dresden (Germany). His research focuses on British literature, gender and masculinity, impostors, humour, and adaptation. He has co-edited the Metzler Handbook of Masculinity Studies (2016) and, most recently, Patricia Highsmith on Screen (2018).