Narrative Transvestism : : Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel / / Madeleine Kahn.
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 di...
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Kahn, Madeleine, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Narrative Transvestism : Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel / Madeleine Kahn. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1992 1 online resource (200 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Reading Women Writing Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Transvestism and Narrative Structures in Eighteenth-Century England -- 2. Defoe and Roxana: The Reader as Author -- 3. Richardson and Clarissa: The Author as Reader -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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?Kahn maintains that the answers to such questions lie in the nature of "narrative transvestism" -her term for the device through which a male author directs the reader's interpretation by temporarily abandoning himself to a culturally defined female voice and sensibility and then reasserting his male voice.In her innovative readings of key eighteenth-century English novels, Kahn draws upon a range of contemporary critical approaches. Lucid and witty, Narrative Transvestism will serve as a model of analysis for readers interested in issues of gender in narrative, including feminist theorists, students and scholars of the eighteenth-century novel, and critics interested in the applications of psychoanalysis to literature. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) First person narrative. Narration (Rhetoric) History 18th century. Sex role in literature. Women in literature. Gender Studies. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women . bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721854 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501721854 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501721854/original |
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