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Neo-victorian biofiction : reimagining nineteenth-century historical subjects /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill / Rodopi,
2020.
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| Colección: | Neo-Victorian series ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Taking Biofictional Liberties: Tactical Games and Gambits with Nineteenth-Century Lives
- 1 Reimagining Actual Lives
- 2 The Nineteenth Century's Prominence in Biofiction
- 3 Biofiction, Biography and Historical Fiction
- 4 The Pursuit of Intimacy Re-Voicing the Dead
- 5 Biofictional Empathy Versus Exposure
- 6 Biofictional Hermeneutics of Suspicion
- 7 Epistemological Disruption and Postmodern Truths
- 8 Neo-Victorian Biofiction's Dilemma with Ethics
- 9 Coda Hindsight or Foresight?
- Part 1: Truths and Post-Truths
- Chapter 1 ""Who in the world am I?"": Truth, Identity and Desire in Biofictional Representations of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell
- 1 Unreliable Memories, Uncanny Selves
- 2 Reading/Reviving the Author
- 3 Reading Desire
- 4 Conclusion Biofictional Ethics
- Chapter 2 Fakery and Historical Figures in the Flashman Papers
- 1 Biofiction and Historiographic Metafiction
- 2 Honesty and Authenticity Abraham Lincoln
- 3 Hypocrisy The Seventh Earl of Cardigan
- 4 Sex and Feminism The Rani of Jhansi
- 5 Conclusion Balancing Biofiction and History
- Chapter 3 Biofictional Author Figures and Post-authentic Truths
- 1 Biographilia, Biofictions, and a Culture of Rewrite
- 2 Biofictions Literary Lives and Cultural Memory
- 3 The Post-authentic An Encompassing Perspective
- 4 Realism and Historical Consciousness
- 5 Author Novels and Biofictions
- 6 Authorial Mise en Abyme in Neo-Victorian Biofictions
- 7 A Case Study Julian Barnes' Arthur & George
- 8 Biofictional Endings
- Chapter 4 The Silence and the Roar: Resonant Encounters with George Eliot
- 1 Under Scrutiny
- 2 Enduring Love Feminist Mystique and Critique
- 3 Encountering Eliot through Middlemarch
- 4 Partial Truths and ""The Least Partial Good
- 5 Conclusion The Problem with Consuming Others' Lives
- Part 2: Forms of Otherness and (Re- )Othering
- Chapter 5 Us and Them? Joseph Merrick in Neo-Victorian Children's Fiction
- 1 Constructing the Other The Neo-victorian Freak Show
- 2 How the Elephant Became Merrick, Narrative and Genre
- 3 Telling Tales of 'Us' and 'Them' Vicary and Drimmer
- 4 One of Us? Michael Howell and Peter Ford
- 5 Conclusion Whose Story Is It, Anyway?
- Acknowledgement
- Chapter 6 The Vivisectionist's Tale: Auto/Biographical Voice and the Queer Fictions of Empire in Ann Harries's Manly Pursuits
- 1 Life Writing and Biofiction as Vivisection
- 2 Shameful and Shameless Exposure
- 3 Betraying Confidences The Father Confessor
- 4 Queering the (Less Than) Eminent Victorian
- Chapter 7 Biofiction and Différance: Tracing Threads of (Neo-) Victorian Women Travellers in the Amelia Peabody Emerson Series
- 1 The Amelias Weaving a Derridean Web
- 2 Peters's Femininised Egyptology
- 3 Travel Writing and Neo-Victorian Biofiction