Cross-Gendered Literary Voices

Chapter 1 Introduction: Cross-Gendered Literary Voices

Chapter 2 Female Narrative Energy in the Writings of Dead White Males: Dickens, Collins and Freud

Chapter 3 ‘Everything depend[s] on the fashion of narration’: Women Writing Women Writers in Short Stories of the Fin-de-Siècle

Chapter 4 ‘These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here’ 1 : Tidal Voicing and the Poetics of Home in James Joyce’s Ulysses

Chapter 5 What Happens When a Transvestite Gynaecologist Usurps the Narrator?: Cross-Gendered Ventriloquism in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

Chapter 6 ‘Her speech a purely buccal phenomenon’: Voice as a Lost Object in Samuel Beckett’s Works

Chapter 7 The Engendered and Dis-engendered Other in Iris Murdoch’s Early Fiction

Chapter 8 ‘His almost vanished voice’: Gendering and Transgendering Bodily Signification and the Voice in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve

Chapter 9 No Man’s Land: the Transgendered Voice in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex and Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country

Chapter 10 Transvestic Voices and Gendered Performance in Patrick McCabe’s Breakfast on Pluto

Chapter 11 Authenticity, Authority and the Author: the Sugared Voice of the Neo-Victorian Prostitute in The Crimson Petal and the White

Chapter 12 ‘Queering’ the Speaking Subject in Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger

Chapter 13 Conclusion: Crossings and Re-crossings