Literary Twinship From Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning

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.

List of contents

Introducing twins
Conceiving twins
Confusing twins
Appropriating twins
Detecting twins
Multiplying twins
Untangling twins

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wieland Schwanebeck
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781032239019
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3223901-9
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, POETRY / Haiku, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Literary studies: general