| Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel Contributor(s): Kahn, Madeleine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801425360 ISBN-13: 9780801425363 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $56.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Women - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 823.509 |
| LCCN: 91055060 |
| Series: Reading Women Writing |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.98 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Many of the earliest canonical novels including Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana and Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa were written by men who assumed the first-person narrative voice of women. What does it mean for a man to write his "autobiography" as if he were a woman? What did early novelists have to gain from it, in a period when woman's realm was devalued and woman's voice rarely heard in public? How does the male author behind the voice reveal himself to readers, and how do our glimpses o |
Contributor Bio(s): Kahn, Madeleine: - Madeleine Kahn is Assistant Professor of English at Mills College. |