Neo-/Victorian biographilia and James Miranda Barry : a study in transgender and transgenre / Ann Heilmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heilmann, Ann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barry, James, 1795-1865.

Barry, James.

Gender nonconformity--Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Gender nonconformity.

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Study in transgender and transgenre

Place of Publication:

[Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Contents:

Writing Barry - Writing Gender/Genre Crossing: An Introduction ; (Self-)Representations: Gender, Genre and Transgression; Meta/Textual Impersonations: Neo-Victorian Biographilia ; Passing Reflections and Structures

'Tell Me Your Secret, Doctor James': A Cultural History of James Barry ; A 'Creature of Shadowed Origin': In Search of James Barry ; Writing Games with Doctor James: Sexual/Textual Hybridities ; The Barry Archive: Victorian to Neo-Victorian Life-Writing and the Construction of the Barry Mythos ; Pronomial (Mis)Appropriations: 'I Must Still Use the "Masculine"'/'I Must Retain the Feminine Gender'

Myths and Afterlives: Foundation Stories and Body Plots ; Narrative Archetypes of Barry Biographilia: Celebration, Appropriation and Sensation ; Body Mnemonics: Barry In and Out of the Looking Glass

Performances in Gender and Genre: Barry in Contemporary Postmodernist Biodrama, Biography and Biofiction ; 'The Mourner of Myself': Duality, Conflict and Redemption in Biodrama ; The Biographer's Tale: The Authorial Self-Staging of Biographiction ; 'There Are No Truths, There Are Only Layers of Lies': Performing Barry in Postmodernist Biofiction

TransFormations: Transgender and Transgenre in Victorian and Neo

Victorian Life-Writing - A Conclusion ; Appendices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-376) and index.

ISBN:

331971385X

9783319713854

OCLC:

1007078364