Neo-Victorian biofiction : : reimagining nineteenth-century historical subjects /

Neo-Victorian biofiction : : reimagining nineteenth-century historical subjects / / edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben.

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This volume explores the many paradoxes of neo-Victorian biofiction, a genre that yokes together the real and the imaginary, biography and fiction, and generates oxymoronic combinations like creative facts, fictional truth, or poetic truthfulness. Contemporary biofictions recreating nineteenth-centu...

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Superior document:Neo-Victorian series ; Volume 6
TeilnehmendeR:
Kohlke, Marie-Luise,
Gutleben, Christian,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Neo-Victorian series ; Volume 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Taking Biofictional Liberties: Tactical Games and Gambits with Nineteenth-century Lives
  • Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben
  • Part 1: Truths and Post-Truths
  • 1 “Who in the world am I?”: Truth, Identity and Desire in Biofictional Representations of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell
  • Charlotte Boyce
  • 2 Fakery and Historical Figures in the Flashman Papers
  • Matthew Crofts
  • 3 Biofictional Author Figures and Post-authentic Truths
  • Roberta Gefter Wondrich
  • 4 The Silence and the Roar: Resonant Encounters with George Eliot
  • Laura Savu Walker
  • Part 2: Forms of Otherness and (Re-)Othering
  • 5 Us and Them? Joseph Merrick in Neo-Victorian Children’s Fiction
  • Helen Davies
  • 6 The Vivisectionist’s Tale: Auto/Biographical Voice and the Queer Fictions of Empire in Ann Harries’s Manly Pursuits
  • Jeanne Ellis
  • 7 Biofiction and Différance: Tracing Threads of (Neo-) Victorian Women Travellers in the Amelia Peabody Emerson Series
  • Stacey L. Kikendall
  • 8 Biofiction Goes Global: Richard Flanagan’s Wanting, Dickens, and the Lost Child
  • Catherine Lanone
  • Part 3: After-Lives of Fame and Infamy
  • 9 Polymath Revisited: Cross-lighting R.F. Burton between Cultural Passing and Steampunk Action
  • Sylvia Mieszkowski
  • 10 (Re)Tracing Charlotte Brontë’s Steps: Biofiction as Memory Text in Michèle Roberts’s The Mistressclass
  • Sonia Villegas-López
  • 11 Julia Margaret Cameron and Archival Imagination: Materiality and Subjectivity in Biofictions of a Victorian Photographer
  • Lucy Smith
  • 12 Musical Madness: Biofictional Performances of the Lizzie Borden Murders
  • Marc Napolitano
  • Index.

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