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Article: Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel.
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- Studies in the Novel
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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KAHN, MADELEINE. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991). 172 pp. $29.95 cloth, $9.95 paper.
Madeleine Kahn's Narrative Transvestism is representative of third-generation theories of the eighteenth-century English novel which follow the work of lan Watt's "heirs" (as Robert Folkenflik has called them): Nancy Armstrong, Terry Castle, and Michael McKeon. Kahn locates the social and generic instability on which second-generation novel theorists have focused in the eighteenth- century definitions of gender, and suggests that the transvestite, as a figure for the destabilization of gender and sex, was of special concern. The transvestite transgresses the ...