Cross-Gendered Literary Voices
Appropriating, Resisting, Embracing
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Table of contents
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Introduction: Cross-Gendered Literary Voices
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Empowering or Effacing The Victorian Other?
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Resisting and Embracing the Other via the Abject Entity
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Gender as Performance and the Vocalization of Transgendered Bodies
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Authority and Anxieties of Appropriation in Historical Narratives
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Conclusion: Crossings and Re-crossings
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Introduction
This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts.
Keywords
Charles Dickens fashion fiction gender Narration Narrative Samuel Beckett theatre Victorian era women
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Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137020758
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-33553-4
- Online ISBN 978-1-137-02075-8
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