Gender play in Mark Twain [electronic resource] : cross-dressing and transgression / Linda A. Morris.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mark Twain and his circle seriesPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.Description: xii, 182 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 818/.409 22
LOC classification:
  • PS1338 .M67 2007eb
Online resources: Summary: "Explores Mark Twain's use of cross-dressing across his career by exposing the cast of his characters who masqueraded as members of the opposite sex or who otherwise defied gender expectations. Morris grounds her study in an understanding of the era's theatrical cross-dressing and changing mores, and events in Clemens's own household"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-176) and index.

"Explores Mark Twain's use of cross-dressing across his career by exposing the cast of his characters who masqueraded as members of the opposite sex or who otherwise defied gender expectations. Morris grounds her study in an understanding of the era's theatrical cross-dressing and changing mores, and events in Clemens's own household"--Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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