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

Summary

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"...

Product details

• Authors: Madeleine Kahn
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.1992
• EAN: 9780801425363
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-2536-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Reading Women Writing; Reading Women Writing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Klassische Belletristik, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren