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The Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture

By Karen Dillon

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About the book

The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently reproduce the spectacle of twins who share an insular closeness and perform a supposed alikeness-standing side by side, speaking and acting in unison.Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon, this first comprehensive study of twins in American literature and popular culture examines their historical narrative-embedded within discourses of aberrance, experimentation and eugenics-a...Show more

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ISBN

9781476666969

Publisher

McFarland & Co Inc

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

The Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture

Format

Paperback

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