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Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

Kahn, Madeleine

Hardcover

Series: Reading Women Writing

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0801425360
ISBN13: 9780801425363
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Feb 24 1992
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 woman he has created is believable as a woman? Why does she inevitably rail against the perfidy of men?

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