"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
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