Narrative TransvestismMany of the earliest canonical novelsincluding Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana and Richardson's Pamela and Clarissawere written by men who assumed the first person narrative voice of women. What does it mean for a man to write his "autobiography" as if he were a woman? What did early novelists have to gain from it, in a period when woman's realm was devalued and woman's voice rarely heard in public? How does the male author behind the voice reveal