Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
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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| 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" 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 |
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| spelling | Kahn, Madeleine Verfasser aut Narrative Transvestism Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel Madeleine Kahn Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2018] © 1992 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Reading Women Writing Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019) 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 In English Richardson, Samuel 1689-1761 Clarissa (DE-588)4138842-2 gnd rswk-swf Defoe, Daniel 1661-1731 The fortunate mistress (DE-588)4278266-1 gnd rswk-swf LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women bisacsh First person narrative Narration (Rhetoric) History 18th century Sex role in literature Women in literature Crossdressing Motiv (DE-588)1104185393 gnd rswk-swf Crossdressing (DE-588)1103153943 gnd rswk-swf Defoe, Daniel 1661-1731 The fortunate mistress (DE-588)4278266-1 u Crossdressing (DE-588)1103153943 s 1\p DE-604 Richardson, Samuel 1689-1761 Clarissa (DE-588)4138842-2 u Crossdressing Motiv (DE-588)1104185393 s 2\p DE-604 3\p DE-604 4\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721854 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 3\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 4\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Kahn, Madeleine Narrative Transvestism Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel Richardson, Samuel 1689-1761 Clarissa (DE-588)4138842-2 gnd Defoe, Daniel 1661-1731 The fortunate mistress (DE-588)4278266-1 gnd LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women bisacsh First person narrative Narration (Rhetoric) History 18th century Sex role in literature Women in literature Crossdressing Motiv (DE-588)1104185393 gnd Crossdressing (DE-588)1103153943 gnd |
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| title | Narrative Transvestism Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel |
| title_auth | Narrative Transvestism Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel |
| title_exact_search | Narrative Transvestism Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel |
| title_full | Narrative Transvestism Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel Madeleine Kahn |
| title_fullStr | Narrative Transvestism Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel Madeleine Kahn |
| title_full_unstemmed | Narrative Transvestism Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel Madeleine Kahn |
| title_short | Narrative Transvestism |
| title_sort | narrative transvestism rhetoric and gender in the eighteenth century english novel |
| title_sub | Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel |
| topic | Richardson, Samuel 1689-1761 Clarissa (DE-588)4138842-2 gnd Defoe, Daniel 1661-1731 The fortunate mistress (DE-588)4278266-1 gnd LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women bisacsh First person narrative Narration (Rhetoric) History 18th century Sex role in literature Women in literature Crossdressing Motiv (DE-588)1104185393 gnd Crossdressing (DE-588)1103153943 gnd |
| topic_facet | Richardson, Samuel 1689-1761 Clarissa Defoe, Daniel 1661-1731 The fortunate mistress LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women First person narrative Narration (Rhetoric) History 18th century Sex role in literature Women in literature Crossdressing Motiv Crossdressing |
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