Uncanny doubles : doppelgangers, twins, clones and the Gothic / edited by Simon Bacon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bacon, Simon, 1965- editor.

EBSCOhost

Series:

Palgrave Gothic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Doubles in literature.

Doubles in popular culture.

Twins in literature.

Gothic literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 398 pages) : illustrations (colour).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.

Contents:

Introduction

SECTION ONE TWINS AND CLONES

The Ideology of Twinship Utopia Purity and Danger

Facing the Shadow Orphan Black Feminism and Personhood

Do Any Lives Matter Polyvalent Representations of Evil in The Divine

Self-Absorbed Conjoined Twins and the Threat of Intrasubjectivity in Video Games

Revisiting the Fabulous Mantle Twins The Gothic Resonance of Dead Ringers in the Twenty First Century

Conjoined Twins Disjoined Making a Case for Basket Case

A Pair of Hearts Are Hollow Graves The Lycanthropic Twin in Contemporary Horror and Fantasy Literature

Reflecting the Vampire How the Use of Twins in the Vampire Genre can Engender the Uncanny

Its as Though Weve All Been Here Before Seeing Double in the Overlook Hotel

Lovecraftian Dualities and Nonhuman Bodies The Case of the Whateley Twins in The Dunwich Horror

SECTION TWO DOPPELGÄNGERS

SheHulk Attorney at Law and Doppelgänger

A Vindication of Carlos Ruiz Zafóns Young Adult Fiction Intertextuality in The Watcher in the Shadows Las luces de septiembre 1995

Good Weather for Gory Doppelgängers Ecomonstrous Doubles Eidolons and Fetches in Three Tales by R A n Lafferty

Malevolent Mirrors Dark Doppelgängers and Corrupt Copies Represented in Childrens Television Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Adventure Television

The Terror Within and Without Iain Banks Complicity

You are Not Evil to Me You Were Necessary Pathologising Malevolent Alters in Split 2016 and Glass 2019

Blood of the State Cloning in the World of Judge Dredd

Looking like dolls come alive Doubling Doppelgängers and the Maternal Inheritance of Uncanny Incest in Virginia Andrews Dollanganger Saga

Davids Dreams of Doubles Lynch and the Doppelgänger

A Copy of the Body but Not the Soul Homo Economicus Double Consciousness and Jordan Peeles Us

Conclusion.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9783031832314

3031832310

Publisher Number:

90103542248

CIPO000220335

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.