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- The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
- The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Historical Perspectives
- Part II Systematic Perspectives
- Chapter 15 Literary Authorship in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Poetics
- Chapter 16 Authors, Genres, and Audiences
- Chapter 17 The Author in Literary Theory and Theories of Literature
- Chapter 18 Gender, Sexuality, and the Author
- Chapter 19 Postcolonial and Indigenous Authorship
- Part III Practical Perspectives
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 18 - Gender, Sexuality, and the Author
Five Phases of Authorship from the Renaissance to the Twenty-First Century
from Part II - Systematic Perspectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2019
- The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
- The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Historical Perspectives
- Part II Systematic Perspectives
- Chapter 15 Literary Authorship in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Poetics
- Chapter 16 Authors, Genres, and Audiences
- Chapter 17 The Author in Literary Theory and Theories of Literature
- Chapter 18 Gender, Sexuality, and the Author
- Chapter 19 Postcolonial and Indigenous Authorship
- Part III Practical Perspectives
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The aim of this chapter is to highlight the way in which gender and sexuality have inflected conceptions of authorship. Several categories such as that of author, language, and text (with a special emphasis on the latter) come to bear on the criticism of literature produced by individuals reflecting the spectrum of gender diversity. I here examine a wide array of English-language fictional texts, mostly from England and the US, but also autobiographies or other forms of life-writing from the English Renaissance to the beginning of the twenty-first century, with one incursion, at the end, into a non-Western context. I distinguish between five phases of authorship: (1) Fathering the text; (2) (M)Othering the text; (3) En-gendering the Text; (4) Queering the text and the author; and (5) Transgendering the text.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship , pp. 288 - 304Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019