Gender Play in Mark Twain: Cross-Dressing and Transgression

by Linda Morris and Linda A. Morris

Book Overview

Huckleberry Finn dressing as a girl is a famously comic scene in Mark Twain's novel but hardly out of character--for the author, that is. Twain "troubled gender" in much of his otherwise traditional fiction, depicting children whose sexual identities are switched at birth, tomboys, same-sex married couples, and even a male French painter who impersonates his own fictive sister and becomes engaged to another man.

This book explores Mark...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826219632
• ISBN13: 9780826219633
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5