{"product_id":"neo-victorian-biofiction-reimagining-nineteenth-century-historical-subjects-9789004434134","title":"Neo-Victorian Biofiction: Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210803503447,"sku":"9789004434134","price":139.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/neo-victorian-biofiction-reimagining-nineteenth-century-historical-subjects-9789004434134","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}