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03230aam a2200421Mi 4500 001 E3D7150E214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 190909t20202020stk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1474462723 020 $a 9781474462723 035 $a (OCoLC)1117550036 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d NTU $d IOH $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d SILO 050 4 $a PN56.G45 $b C37 2020 082 04 $a 823.9109 $2 23 100 1 $a Carroll, Rachel, $e author. 245 10 $a Transgender and the literary imagination : $b changing gender in twentieth-century writing / $c Rachel Carroll. 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Edinburgh University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 248 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a "First published in hardback by Edinburgh University Press 2018."--Title page verso 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: transgender and the literary imagination: changing gender in twentieth-century writing -- '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) -- 'She had never been a woman': second wave feminism, femininity and transgender in Angela Carter's The passion of new Eve (1977) -- Playing the breeches part: feminist appropriations, biographical fictions and colonial contexts in Patricia Duncker's James Miranda Barry (1999) -- Two beings/one body: intersex lives and transsexual narratives in Man into woman (1931) and David Ebershoff's The Danish girl (2000) -- Blue births and last words: rewriting race, nation and family in Jackie Kay's Trumpet (1998) -- Never an unhappy hour: Revisiting marriage in film adaptations of Albert Nobbs (2011) and The Danish girl (2016). 520 $a 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. Grounded in feminist scholarship, informed by queer theory and indebted to transgender studies, this book investigates the ways in which transgender identities and histories have been 'authored by others', with a focus on literary fiction by British, Irish and American authors, life writing and adaptation for stage and screen--from publisher's website. 650 0 $a English literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Gender identity in literature. 650 0 $a Transgender people in literature. 650 6 $a LitteÌrature anglaise $y 20e sieÌcle $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a IdentiteÌ de genre dans la litteÌrature. 650 6 $a Transgenres dans la litteÌrature. 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Gender identity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00939607 650 7 $a Transgender people in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01904964 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100133.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E3D7150E214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search