Identical twins as doppelgangers: braddon's the trail of the serpent and collins's poor miss finch

• Main Author: Ng, Kai Xin
• Other Authors: Tamara Silvia Wagner
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/68583
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis explores identical twins as a type of doppelganger in Victorian sensation fiction, by focusing on the identical twin characters in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent (1861) and Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch (1872). The thesis investigates how nineteenth-century theories...