"The Boy Was a Girl": Reconstructing Gender and Class to Deconstruct Difference in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins.

The article discusses fictions of gender and challenges to separate-spheres ideology through cross-dressing and gender-switching in Sarah Grand's "The Heavenly Twins." The epigraph features a stanza from a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The poet noted that meaning and identity are socially const...

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Publicado en:	Victorian Newsletter no. 113; pp. 38 - 54
Autor principal:	Fessler, Audrey
Formato:	Literary Criticism
Publicado:	Victorian Newsletter Spring2008
Materias:	Heavenly Twins, The (Book) Gender Cross-dressing Poetry (Literary form) Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935 Fiction
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Sumario:	The article discusses fictions of gender and challenges to separate-spheres ideology through cross-dressing and gender-switching in Sarah Grand's "The Heavenly Twins." The epigraph features a stanza from a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The poet noted that meaning and identity are socially constructed and construed, not essential and unchanging.