Camp Transvestism in Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994)

This essay focuses on the figure of the cross-dresser in Peter Ackroyd’s Neo-Victorian novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, which uses both on and off-stage female-to-male and male-to-female cross-dressing as a backdrop for an investigation into a series of gruesome murders. The essay first explo...

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Main Author: Justine GONNEAUD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2019-06-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/7802