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Many of the earliest canonical novels--including Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana and Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa--were written by men who assumed the first-person narrative voice of women. What does it mean for a man to write his "autobiography" as if he were a woman? What did early novelists have to gain from it, in a period when woman's realm was devalued and woman's voice rarely heard in public? How does the male author behind the voice reveal himself to readers, and how do our glimpses
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- Author
- Kahn, Madeleine
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801497704
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Language Learning, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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