About this title: "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 ...
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Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780226293875ISBN:0226293874
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13:9780226293875ISBN:0226293874
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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