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PublisherSpringer International Publishing A&G

ISBN-103031090187

ISBN-139783031090189

eBay Product ID (ePID)15057281014

Product Key Features

Book TitleImagining Gender in Biographical Fiction

Number of PagesXiv, 392 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicGender Studies, General, Semiotics & Theory

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science

AuthorCaitríona Ní Dhúill

Book SeriesPalgrave Studies in Life Writing Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight23.2 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal809.382

Table Of Content1. 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. Stanislawa 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 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.

SynopsisThis volume 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. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as 'fictions of gender', drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their 'raw material', the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

LC Classification NumberPN45-57