LEADER 03982nam 2200481 450 001 9910812361103321 005 20230314142123.0 010 $a90-04-43435-6 010 $a9789004434356 (electronic book) 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004434356 035 $a(CKB)4100000011287424 035 $z(OCoLC)1156435270 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004434356 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6359690 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011287424 100 $a20210224d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aNeo-Victorian biofiction $ereimagining nineteenth-century historical subjects /$fedited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben 210 1$aLeiden, The Netherlands ;$aBoston :$cBrill Rodopi,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aNeo-Victorian series ;$vVolume 6 300 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 311 $a90-04-43413-5 327 $aContributors -- 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 Diffe?rance: 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 Bronte??s Steps: Biofiction as Memory Text in Miche?le Roberts?s The Mistressclass -- Sonia Villegas-Lo?pez -- 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. 330 8 $aThis volume explores the many paradoxes of neo-Victorian biofiction, a genre that yokes together the real and the imaginary, biography and fiction, and generates oxymoronic combinations like creative facts, fictional truth, or poetic truthfulness. Contemporary biofictions recreating nineteenth-century lives demonstrate the crucial but always ethically ambiguous revision and supplementation of the historical archive. Due to the tension between ethical empathy and consumerist voyeurism, between traumatic testimony and exploitative expose?, the epistemological response is per force one of hermeneutic suspicion and iconoclasm. In the final account, this volume highlights neo-Victorianism?s deconstruction of master-narratives and the consequent democratic rehabilitation of over-looked microhistories. 410 0$aNeo-Victorian series ;$vVolume 6. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823.9209 702 $aKohlke$b Marie-Luise 702 $aGutleben$b Christian 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812361103321 996 $aNeo-Victorian biofiction$93949292 997 $aUNINA