Neo-Victorian Biofiction

Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects

AvMarie-Luise Kohlke

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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-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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-10
Mått:155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt:724 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Neo-Victorian Series
Antal sidor:393
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004434134

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Marie-Luise Kohlke, Ph.D. (2000), is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea University (Wales, UK) and General/Founding Editor of Neo-Victorian Studies - www.neovictorianstudies.com. Besides her series co-editorship of Brill │Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, she has published numerous chapters and articles on neo-Victorianism and trauma literature.Christian Gutleben, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor of English Literature at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France) and Chief Editor of the journal Cycnos. He has published several monographs and many papers on contemporary fiction and film and is the series co-editor of Brill│Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series.

Innehållsförteckning

ContributorsTaking Biofictional Liberties: Tactical Games and Gambits with Nineteenth-century LivesMarie-Luise Kohlke and Christian GutlebenPart 1: Truths and Post-Truths1 “Who in the world am I?”: Truth, Identity and Desire in Biofictional Representations of Lewis Carroll and Alice LiddellCharlotte Boyce2 Fakery and Historical Figures in the Flashman PapersMatthew Crofts3 Biofictional Author Figures and Post-authentic TruthsRoberta Gefter Wondrich4 The Silence and the Roar: Resonant Encounters with George EliotLaura Savu WalkerPart 2: Forms of Otherness and (Re-)Othering5 Us and Them? Joseph Merrick in Neo-Victorian Children’s FictionHelen Davies6 The Vivisectionist’s Tale: Auto/Biographical Voice and the Queer Fictions of Empire in Ann Harries’s Manly PursuitsJeanne Ellis7 Biofiction and Différance: Tracing Threads of (Neo-) Victorian Women Travellers in the Amelia Peabody Emerson SeriesStacey L.Kikendall8 Biofiction Goes Global: Richard Flanagan’s Wanting, Dickens, and the Lost ChildCatherine LanonePart 3: After-Lives of Fame and Infamy9 Polymath Revisited: Cross-lighting R.F. Burton between Cultural Passing and Steampunk ActionSylvia Mieszkowski10 (Re)Tracing Charlotte Brontë’s Steps: Biofiction as Memory Text in Michèle Roberts’sThe MistressclassSonia Villegas-López11 Julia Margaret Cameron and Archival Imagination: Materiality and Subjectivity in Biofictions of a Victorian PhotographerLucy Smith12 Musical Madness: Biofictional Performances of the Lizzie Borden MurdersMarc NapolitanoIndex