Cross-Gendered Literary Voices: Appropriating, Resisting, Embracing

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Cross-Gendered Literary Voices....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Female Narrative Energy in the Writings of Dead White Males: Dickens, Collins and Freud....Pages 15-35
‘Everything depend[s] on the fashion of narration’: Women Writing Women Writers in Short Stories of the Fin-de-Siècle....Pages 36-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
‘These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here’1: Tidal Voicing and the Poetics of Home in James Joyce’s Ulysses....Pages 57-73
What Happens When a Transvestite Gynaecologist Usurps the Narrator?: Cross-Gendered Ventriloquism in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood....Pages 74-92
‘Her speech a purely buccal phenomenon’: Voice as a Lost Object in Samuel Beckett’s Works....Pages 93-112
The Engendered and Dis-engendered Other in Iris Murdoch’s Early Fiction....Pages 113-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
‘His almost vanished voice’: Gendering and Transgendering Bodily Signification and the Voice in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve....Pages 131-147
No Man’s Land: the Transgendered Voice in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex and Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country....Pages 148-163
Transvestic Voices and Gendered Performance in Patrick McCabe’s Breakfast on Pluto....Pages 164-181
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Authenticity, Authority and the Author: the Sugared Voice of the Neo-Victorian Prostitute in The Crimson Petal and the White....Pages 185-203
‘Queering’ the Speaking Subject in Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger....Pages 204-221
Conclusion: Crossings and Re-crossings....Pages 222-225
Back Matter....Pages 226-243