Transgender and the Literary Imagination: Changing Gender in Twentieth-Century Writing

ISBN-13: 9781474462723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Rachel Carroll

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Introduction: Transgender and the literary imagination: changing gender in twentieth century writing; 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 (1976); 2. ‘She had never been a woman’: Second Wave feminism, femininity and transgender in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (1977); 3. ‘Playing the breeches part’: feminist appropriations, biographical fictions and colonial contexts in Patricia Duncker’s James Miranda Barry (1999); 4. Two beings / one body: intersex lives and transsexual narratives in Man into Woman (1933) and David Ebershoff’s The Danish Girl (2000); 5. Blue births and last words: rewriting race, nation and family in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet (1998); 6. Never an unhappy hour: revisiting marriage in film adaptations of Albert Nobbs (2011) and The Danish Girl (2016); Bibliography; Index.