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Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
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Madeleine Kahn

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Transvestism and Narrative Structures in Eighteenth-Century England
2. Defoe and Roxana: The Reader as Author
3. Richardson and Clarissa: The Author as Reader
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

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