Neo-/Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry: A Study in Transgender and Transgenre

ISBN-13: 9783319713854 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 402 str.

Ann Heilmann

Opis

Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex.

Recenzje

"Neo-/Victorian Biographilia is a brilliant addition to both nineteenth-century studies and transgender studies. Anyone who has puzzled over the gender-bending moments in the Brontës or Wilkie Collins-pick your favorite author-will find Heilmann's study valuable. It is one of the best guides I have read about Victorian and neo-Victorian gender performance." (Martha Vicinus, Victorian Studies, Vol. 62 (1), 2019)

Spis treści

1 Writing Barry – Writing Gender/Genre Crossing:An Introduction.- 2 ‘Tell Me Your Secret, Doctor James’: A Cultural History of James Barry.- 3 Myths and Afterlives: Foundation Stories and Body Plots.- 4 Performances in Gender and Genre: Barry in Contemporary Postmodernist Biodrama, Biography and Biofiction.- 5 TransFormations: Transgender and Transgenre in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Life-Writing – A Conclusion

O autorze

Ann Heilmann is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. The author of three previous monographs, on New Woman Fiction, New Woman Strategies, and Neo-Victorianism (with Mark Llewellyn), she has co-edited a scholarly edition and essay collection on the Anglo-Irish author George Moore. Further (single and collaborative) work includes four essay collections and four anthology sets on late-Victorian, early twentieth-century and contemporary feminism and women’s writing.