Presenting gender : changing sex in early-modern culture / edited by Chris Mounsey.

Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2001], ©2001.

301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Be male and female still": an ABC of hyperbolic masculinity in the eighteenth century / Conrad Brunstrom -- Women behaving well: early modern images of female courage / Carolyn D. Williams -- Voice, gender and the Augustan verse epistle / Karin Williamson -- The fop, the canting queen and the deferral of gender / Thomas A. King -- Cross-dressing the nature of gender in Mary Robinson's Walsingham / Julie Shaffer -- The metamorphosis of sex(uality): Ovid's "Iphis and Ianthe" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / David Michael Robinson -- Enigmatic gender in Delarivier Manley's New Atalantis / Ruth Herman -- The key to Stowe: toward a patriot Whig reading of Eliza Haywood's Eovaai / Elizabeth Kubek -- The very scandal of her tea table: Eliza Haywood's response to the Whig public sphere / Rachel K. Carnell -- "To the women of both sexes": Christopher Smart, Mrs. Mary Midnight, the voice of the dissident woman writer / Chris Mounsey.