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Article: Mark Twain's cross-dressing oeuvre. (Twain's tales on transvestites)
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- College Literature
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- June 1, 1997
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Mark Twain apparently enjoyed nothing better than writing a rollicking transvestite tale. Beginning with his uncompleted short story "A Medieval Romance" (begun in 1868) and continuing in his 1894 novel Pudd'nhead Wilson, Twain was irresistibly drawn to loving descriptions and painstaking explorations of the contexts and implications of cross-dressing. He left a myriad of texts that testify to his fascination with transvestism; in addition to the short story and novel mentioned above, cross-dressing can be found in such various works as "1,002d Arabian Night" (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896), Following the Equator ...
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