1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910477339903321

Autore

Carroll Rachel

Titolo

Transgender and the literary imagination : changing gender in twentieth-century writing / / Rachel Carroll [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-4744-5387-2

1-4744-1468-0

1-4744-1467-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh scholarship online

Classificazione

EC 1876

Disciplina

809.9335267

Soggetti

Gender identity in literature

Transgender people in literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Sep 2018).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Transgender and the Literary Imagination: Changing Gender in Twentieth-Century W -- 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) -- 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 (1931) 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

Sommario/riassunto

'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.