Neo-/Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry

Ann Heilmann is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. The author of three previous monographs, on New Woman Fiction, New Woman Strategies, and Neo-Victorianism (with Mark Llewellyn), she has co-edited a scholarly edition and essay collection on the Anglo-Irish author George Moore. Further (single and collaborative) work includes four essay collections and four anthology sets on late-Victorian, early twentieth-century and contemporary feminism and women’s writing.

“Neo-/Victorian Biographilia is a brilliant addition to both nineteenth-century studies and transgender studies. Anyone who has puzzled over the gender-bending moments in the Brontës or Wilkie Collins—pick your favorite author—will find Heilmann’s study valuable. It is one of the best guides I have read about Victorian and neo-Victorian gender performance.” (Martha Vicinus, Victorian Studies, Vol. 62(1), 2019)

• 1 Writing Barry – Writing Gender/Genre Crossing:An Introduction.- 2 ‘Tell Me Your Secret, Doctor James’: A Cultural History of James Barry.- 3 Myths and Afterlives: Foundation Stories and Body Plots.- 4 Performances in Gender and Genre: Barry in Contemporary Postmodernist Biodrama, Biography and Biofiction.- 5 TransFormations: Transgender and Transgenre in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Life-Writing – A Conclusion