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Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel (Reading Women Writing)
Madeleine Kahn
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Description for Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel (Reading Women Writing)
Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 200.
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 of him affect our experience of the novel? Does it matter if the ... Read more
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 of him affect our experience of the novel? Does it matter if the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Series
Reading Women Writing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801497704
SKU
V9780801497704
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About Madeleine Kahn
Madeleine Kahn is Assistant Professor of English at Mills College.
Reviews for Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel (Reading Women Writing)
This is a thought-provoking study designed to consider the implications for gender studies of what the author calls the 'explosive fact' that the first canonical English novels were written by men in the person of women.
British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies
British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies