Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's AmericaUniversity of Chicago Press, 1989-01-15 - 217 psl. "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 literary "incoherence," Gillman situates Twain and his work in historical context, demonstrating the complex interplay between his most intimate personal and authorial identity and the public attitudes toward race, gender, and science. Gillman shows that laws regulating race classification, paternity, and rape cases underwrite Twain's critical exploration of racial and sexual difference in the writings of the 1890s and after, most strikingly in the little-known manuscripts that Gillman calls the "tales of transvestism." The "pseudoscience" of spiritualism and the "science" of psychology provide the cultural vocabularies essential to Twain's fantasy and science fiction writings of his last two decades. Twain stands forth finally as a representative man, not only a child of his culture, but also as one implicated in a continuing American anxiety about freedom, race, and identity. |
Turinys
Mark Twain in Context | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO Imposture and the Littery Man | 14 |
CHAPTER THREE Racial Identity in Puddnhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins | 53 |
Female Fathers and Male Impersonators | 96 |
CHAPTER FIVE The Dream Writings and the Cosmic Consciousness | 136 |
CHAPTER SIX Dress Reform and Copyright | 181 |
Abbreviations | 189 |
Notes | 190 |
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Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
age of consent Albert Bigelow Paine American argue artist audience Autobiographical Dictation Barnum boundaries Clemens's clothing color comic context created creativity cultural dream dream-self Driscoll duality Duplicates Evelyn Evelyn Nesbit Extraordinary Twins F. W. H. Myers female fiction finally fingerprints fraud further references gender Howells human humorist hypnotism imposture innocent insanity insanity defense issue letter literary Livy male manuscript Mark Twain metaphors microbe miscegenation mulatto murder Myers Mysterious Stranger narrative narrator newspapers notebook entry novel P. T. Barnum person Platonic Sweetheart problem Psychical Research psychological Pudd'nhead Wilson question race reality response role Roxana scientific seduction sexual Siamese twins slave slavery social Stanford White story subliminal tale tell Thaw trial Thaw's theatrical tion transvestite Twain's writing unconscious victim Wapping Alice William Dean Howells William James woman York
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