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An analysis of the doppelgänger tradition as inflected within literature
from the American Renaissance period. Using Jacques Lacan's mirror stage theory as
context, I analyze how the doppelgänger explores the fracturing of American identity
along political, racial, and idealistic lines through three main texts (Edgar Allan
Poe's short story, "William Wilson," John Neal's novel, "Logan," and ... read moreNathaniel
Hawthorne's short story, "Alice Doane's Appeal"), and how such revelatory dissolution of
constitutional ideals is not the end of identity, but its engine.read less
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