Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 (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
Contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 (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
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- Transgender and The Literary ImaginationChanging Gender in Twentieth-Century Writing, pp. v - viPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017