Neo-/Victorian Biographilia and James Mira...

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Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex. This cultural history of Barry¿s afterlives in Victorian to contemporary (neo-Victorian) life-writing (¿biographiliä) examines the textual and performative strategies of biography, biofiction and biodrama of the last one and a half centuries. In exploring the varied reconstructions and re-imaginations of the historical personality across time, the book illustrates (not least with its cover image) that the ¿real¿ James Barry does not exist, any more than does the ¿faithful¿ biographical, biofictional or biodramatic rendering of a life in a generically ¿stable¿ and discrete form. What Barry represents and how he is represented invariably pinpoints the imaginative, the speculative and the performative: reflections and refractions in the looking glass of genre. Just as ¿James Miranda Barry¿, as a subject of cultural inquiry, comes into being and remains in view in the act of crossing gender, so neo-Victorian life-writing constitutes itself through similar acts of boundary transgression. Transgender thus finds its most typical expression in transgenre.

Über den Autor

Ann Heilmannis 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.

Zusammenfassung

Provides a long view of biographilia, from the Victorian era to the present day

Provides the first cultural history of the fascinating figure of James Barry

Draws on a wealth of rich archival research

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xxiv 402 S. 32 s/w Illustr. 402 p. 32 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783030100483
ISBN-10:	3030100480
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Heilmann, Ann
Auflage:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2018
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Ann Heilmann
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.12.2018
Gewicht:	0,55 kg