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850638
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Carroll, Rachel
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Transgender and the literary imagination : : changing gender in twentieth-century writing /\ Rachel Carroll.
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| Publication Statement
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Edinburgh :: Edinburgh University Press,, 2018.
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1 online resource (248 pages)
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| ISBN
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1474414672
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: 9781474414678
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1474414664
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9781474414661
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Introduction Transgender and the Literary Imagination: Changing Gender in Twentieth-Century Writing; Chapter 1 'Two men, so dissimilar': Class, Marriage and Masculinity in George Moore's Albert Nobbs (1918) and Simone Benmussa's The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (1977); Chapter 2 'She had never been a woman': Second Wave Feminism, Femininity and Transgender in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve (1977); Chapter 3 Playing the Breeches Part: Feminist Appropriations, Biographical Fictions and Colonial Contexts in Patricia Duncker's James Miranda Barry (1999)
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Chapter 4 Two Beings/One Body: Intersex Lives and Transsexual Narratives in Man into Woman (1931) and David Ebershoff's The Danish Girl (2000)Chapter 5 Blue Births and Last Words: Rewriting Race, Nation and Family in Jackie Kay's Trumpet (1998); Chapter 6 Never an Unhappy Hour: Revisiting Marriage in Film Adaptations of Albert Nobbs (2011) and The Danish Girl (2016); Bibliography; Index
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| Abstract
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Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender.
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English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Gender identity in literature-- 20th century.
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Transgender people in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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English literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Transgender people in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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809.9335267
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| LC Classification
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PN56.G45C37 2018eb
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