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Author:   Monica Latham
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9780367550738

ISBN 10:   0367550733
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   09 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: ‘I Have Been Dead and Yet Am Now Alive Again’: Catching the Phantom Biography, fiction and biofiction: from ‘bastard’ to ‘hybrid’ Visions and designs Postmodernist truthful (mis)representations From truthful fictions to travesties of truth Goals and perspectives Chapter 1: Bioplay(giarism)s The ‘little cut-and-paste job’ ‘The play’s the thing’ Virginia’s feminist companions The last song of the nightingale Virginia and Vita: a year in love Chapter 2: Detecting Woolf In the shadow of WWI: Virginia as a feminist sleuth Who killed Virginia Woolf? The Cambridge Five! Chapter 3: Virginia’s Daughters Virginia’s long shadow Virginia’s biological progeny Chapter 4: Vanessa and Virginia A tale of two sisters Vanessa and her sister: ‘twinned always’ Vanessa and Virginia: ‘psychically Siamese’ Vanessa and Virginia: a biofictional spin-off Chapter 5: Polarity, Pairs, Peers and Parallelisms Riding the ‘Dark Mare’ at ‘sixty’s gate’ Adeline and Virginia Mandril and the marmoset Chapter 6: Biofictive Mirrors: Clarissa Woolf / Virginia Dalloway A cameo appearance Mrs Woolf, Mrs Dalloway and Mrs Brown: death, birth and survival Chapter 7: Bloomsberries Reimagined Lytton and Virginia Variable geometries: squares, circles and triangles Bloomsbury legacies Conclusion: Posthumous Lives: ‘I Am Made and Remade Continually’ Biographical Woolfs and fictional Virginias A summing-up of Woolf’s afterlives Biofiction as critical interpretation Virginia Woolf legend: keeping the myth alive

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Monica Latham is a Professor of British literature at the English Department of the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, and a specialist of Virginia Woolf and genetic criticism. She obtained a PhD in 2003 from Université de Nancy, France. Her thesis analysed the genesis of Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, and was entitled ‘De Melymbrosia (1908) à The Voyage Out (1915): l’invention allotropique du projet woolfien d’écriture’. Since then, Latham has published over sixty articles on modernist and postmodernist authors in many international journals and academic publications. She is the author of A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway (2015). She is the co-editor of the series ‘Book Practices and Textual Itineraries’, ‘Biofiction Studies’ and ‘Virginia Woolf’s Reading Notebooks’.

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