Kavanagh, Declan (2024) The Challenge of Trans Theory. In: Aljoe, Nicole N. and Eron, Sarah and Kaul, Suvir, eds. The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English. Routledge, London and New York, pp. 299-313. ISBN 978-1-03-222110-6. (In press) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:104285)
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Abstract
LGBT approaches to material from the anglophone long-eighteenth-century period have placed trans as not only the final letter but as the final thought in their collective scholarly investigations. Broadly, the work across the last two decades in the “queer eighteenth-century” has been dominated by critical allegiances to the “homo eighteenth-century.” This chapter explores the ways in which homo readings of the queer eighteenth century have overlooked trans possibilities. I examine, through a trans-aware lens, a poem by Charles Churchill that satirizes a castrato, and Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801) which takes up female cross dressing as an issue that must be “resolved.”
Item Type: | Book section |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | Trans; queer; eighteenth-century literature; historicism |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English |
Depositing User: | Declan Kavanagh |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2023 13:28 UTC |
Last Modified: | 14 Dec 2023 04:19 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/104285 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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