Brandenburg-Preussen an der Westkuste von Afrika 1681-1721

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00150414
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, : Ernst Sigfried Mittler und Sohn, 1885
• Descrizione fisica: 88 p. : 6 c. di tav. ripieg. ; 27 cm
• Classificazione: PE IV
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910477339903321
• Autore: Carroll Rachel
• 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.