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Author:   Marie-Luise Kohlke ,  Christian Gutleben
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.724kg
ISBN:  

9789004434134

ISBN 10:   9004434135
Pages:   393
Publication Date:   10 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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 Contributors  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’sThe 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

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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.

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