Imagining gender in biographical fiction. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Julia Novak, Caitríona Ní Dhúill.
• Editors: Novak, Julia; Ní Dhúill, Caitríona
• 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 Biographer's Truth in Anchee Min's 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 Gregory's The Constant Princess.6. Jean Plaidy and Philippa Gregory Fighting for Gender Equality Through Katherine Parr's Narrative.- 7. Australian Women Writing Tudor Lives. Part III. Writing the Writer: History, Voyeurism, Victimisation. 8. Biofiction, Compulsory Sexuality, and Celibate Modernism in Colm Tóibín's The Master and David Lodge's Author, Author.9. In Poe's Shadow: Frances Sargent Osgood.10. Stanisława 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 Marić in Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein (2016). Part V. Queering Biofiction. 13. Visceral Biofiction: Herculine Barbin, Intersex Embodiment, and the Biological Imaginary in Aaron Apps's Dear Herculine.14. 'A Way Out of the Prison of Gender': Interview with Novelist Patricia Duncker.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.382; Biographical fiction -- History and criticism; Gender identity -- Fiction
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031090196
• Related ISBNs: 9783031090189
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