Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning

by Wieland Schwanebeck

Unlike previous efforts that have only addressed literary twinship as a footnote to the doppelganger motif, this book makes a case for the complexity of literary twinship across the literary spectrum. Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Award 2022 (Literatures in the English Language), it shows how twins have been instrumental to the formation of comedies of mistaken identity, the detective genre, and dystopian science fiction. The individual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367437899
• ISBN13: 9780367437893
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages