1st Edition
Ventriloquized Voices Feminist Theory and English Renaissance Texts
By Elizabeth D. Harvey
Copyright 1993
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ventriloquized Voices is a fascinating examination of the appropriation of the feminine voice by male authors. In a historical and theoretical study of English texts of the early modern period, Elizabeth D. Harvey looks at the transvestism at work in texts which purport to be by women but which are in fact written by men. The crossing of gender in these ventriloquized works illuminates the... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Travesties Of Voice; Chapter 2 Folly and Hysteria; Chapter 3 Matrix as Metaphor; Chapter 4 Ventriloquizing Sappho, or the Lesbian Muse; Coda;
Biography
Elizabeth D. Harvey
`A dazzling critical tour de force, which gives a new and highly optimistic slant to feminist readings of Renaissance texts.' - Philippa Berry, Times Higher Education Supplement
