Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Scripps Senior Theses Scripps Student Scholarship 2019 Sleight of Hand: Gender, Performance, and (In)sincerity in E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand Samantha Martin Recommended Citation Martin, Samantha, "Sleight of Hand: Gender, Performance, and (In)sincerity in E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The iddeH n Hand" (2019). Scripps Senior Theses. 1360. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1360 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Scripps Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scripps Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. SLEIGHT OF HAND: GENDER, PERFORMANCE, AND (IN)SINCERITY IN E. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH’S THE HIDDEN HAND by SAMANTHA JUNG-LIEN MARTIN SUBMITTED TO SCRIPPS COLLEGE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS PROFESSOR THOMAS KOENIGS PROFESSOR LEILA MANSOURI APRIL 26, 2019 Be cool, firm and alert, and all will be well! — E. D. E. N. Southworth, The Hidden Hand Look into his angel eyes: One look and you’re hypnotized, He’ll take your heart and you must pay the price. Look into his angel eyes: You’ll think you’re in paradise, And one day you’ll find out he wears a disguise. — ABBA, “Angel Eyes” TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments ..........................................................................................................................2 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................3