num_pages: 480
description: This fascinating study explores the image of the double as it appears in literature examining the doppelgnger the alter ego the second self and the modern multiple self in a wide variety of literary settings. Focusing mainly on the Romantic period the fin-de-sicle and what could be called the romantic modern world Miller considers a broad array of subjects including the equivocal language of Romanticism the orphan delirium of the Gothic heritage the themes of isolation escape and the after-life and the phenomena of secrecy and literary anonymity. Over twenty authors are examined in detail including Poe Dickens Dostoyevsky Henry James Robert Frost Sylvia Plath Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow.
language: English
title: Doubles: Studies in Literary History
publisher: Oxford University Press