... be baffled in trying to explain whether one of both of the mirrored images is distorted. Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn(1799), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein(1816), E.T.A. Hoffmann's Kater Murr(1820/21), and James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner(1824) are four novels of the earlier nineteenth century which develop their irony through varieties of structural bifurcation. All may have been available to ... readings this choice is "forced?by social and patriarchal pressures. In volume 2, a second generation of characters who bear the psychological imprint of their parents, bec...

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