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245 0 0 _aNeo-Victorian Biofiction :
_bReimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects /
_cEdited by Marie-Luise Kohlke, Christian Gutleben
246 3 _aReimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBrill | Rodopi,
_c2020.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aNeo-Victorian Series ;
_v6
490 1 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419087
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aContributors -- 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.
520 _aThis 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-century lives demonstrate the crucial but always ethically ambiguous revision and supplementation of the historical archive. Due to the tension between ethical empathy and consumerist voyeurism, between traumatic testimony and exploitative exposé, the epistemological response is per force one of hermeneutic suspicion and iconoclasm. In the final account, this volume highlights neo-Victorianism’s deconstruction of master-narratives and the consequent democratic rehabilitation of over-looked microhistories.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aBiographical fiction, English
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_y21st century
_xHistory and criticism.
700 1 _aKohlke, Marie-Luise,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aGutleben, Christian,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tNeo-Victorian Biofiction : Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects,
_dLeiden Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2020
_w9789004434134
830 0 _aNeo-Victorian Series ;
_v6.
830 0 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419087.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004434356
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