Gender Performance and Spatial Negotiation in the Neo-Victorian Novel - Couverture souple

Petterson, Lin Elinor

 
9788497477437: Gender Performance and Spatial Negotiation in the Neo-Victorian Novel

Synopsis

The present volume examines Judith Butler's concept of gender performance in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus (1984), Sarah Waters's. Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Peter Ackroyd's. Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994). All of them depict how female performers make use of the stage to expose gender identity as an act performance and in doing so they destabilise the public/private dichotomy.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The present volume examines Judith Butler’s concept of gender performance in Angela Carter’s _Nights at the Circus_ (1984), Sarah Waters’s ¬_Tipping the Velvet_ (1998) and Peter Ackroyd’s _Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem_ (1994). All of them depict how female performers make use of the stage to expose gender identity as an act performance and in doing so they destabilise the public/private dichotomy.

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