Imagining gender in biographical fiction /
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. It addresses questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is se...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2022]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in life writing.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT (1 user limit) |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction: Introduction
- Part I. Recovery, Revision, Ventriloquism: Imagining Historical Women
- 2. Everything Is Out of Place : Virginia Woolf, Women, and (Meta-)Historical Biofiction
- 3. Fictional Futures for a Buried Past: Representations of Lucia Joyce
- 4. Imagining Jiang Qing: The Biographers Truth in Anchee Mins Becoming Madame Mao
- Part II. Re-imagining the Early Modern Subject
- 5. From Betrayed Wife to Betraying Wife: Re-writing Katherine of Aragon as Catalina in Philippa Gregorys The Constant Princess
- 6. Jean Plaidy and Philippa Gregory Fighting for Gender Equality Through Katherine Parrs Narrative
- 7. Australian Women Writing Tudor Lives
- Part III. Writing the Writer: History, Voyeurism, Victimisation
- 8. Biofiction, Compulsory Sexuality, and Celibate Modernism in Colm Toibins The Master and David Lodges Author, Author
- 9. In Poes Shadow: Frances Sargent Osgood
- 10. Stanisawa Przybyszewska as a Case of Posthumous Victimisation: On the Ethics of Biofiction
- Part IV. Creativity and Gender in the Arts and Sciences
- 11. Re-visiting the Renaissance Virtuosa in Biofiction on Sofonisba Anguissola
- 12. The Mother of the Theory of Relativity? Re-imagining Mileva Maric in Marie Benedicts The Other Einstein (2016)
- Part V. Queering Biofiction
- 13. Visceral Biofiction: Herculine Barbin, Intersex Embodiment, and the Biological Imaginary in Aaron Appss Dear Herculine
- 14. A Way Out of the Prison of Gender : Interview with Novelist Patricia Duncker.
