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

Riassunto

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"...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Madeleine Kahn
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.02.1992
• EAN: 9780801425363
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-2536-3
• Pagine: 200
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Peso: 454 g
• Serie: Reading Women Writing; Reading Women Writing
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; Klassische Belletristik, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren