Rachel Carroll is Reader in English at Teesside University, UK. She is author of Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and editor of Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities (Continuum, 2009) and Litpop: Writing and Popular Music (with Adam Hansen, Ashgate, 2014). Her research has been published in journals including Adaptation, Contemporary Women’s Writing, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Textual Practice and Women: a cultural review.

• Introduction: Transgender and the literary imagination: changing gender in twentieth century writing1. ‘Two men, so dissimilar’: class, marriage and masculinity in George Moore’s Albert Nobbs (1918) and Simone Benmussa’s The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (1976)2. ‘She had never been a woman’: Second Wave feminism, femininity and transgender in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (1977)3. ‘Playing the breeches part’: feminist appropriations, biographical fictions and colonial contexts in Patricia Duncker’s James Miranda Barry (1999) 4. Two beings / one body: intersex lives and transsexual narratives in Man into Woman (1933) and David Ebershoff’s The Danish Girl (2000)5. Blue births and last words: rewriting race, nation and family in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet (1998)6. Never an unhappy hour: revisiting marriage in film adaptations of Albert Nobbs (2011) and The Danish Girl (2016)BibliographyIndex

This incisive, carefully researched and lucid book makes a significant and original contribution to transgender studies, placing thought-provoking new readings of five culturally influential twentieth-century texts and their afterlives on stage and screen in the context of second-wave and contemporary debates in feminist, queer, intersex and transgender theory. The particular strength of the study is its close attention to the complex relationship between explorations of gender/sex border crossing and discourses of race and migration.