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1 online resource |
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Introduction: Biofiction and writers' afterlives / Bethany Layne -- Part one: Origins: Biofiction, the historical novel, and the new biography. Death-bringing history and the origins of biofiction / Michael Lackey -- Pseudo-quotations and alternative facts: Lytton Strachey and the ethics of biofiction in the post-truth moment / Todd Avery -- Part two: Biofiction and the long-nineteenth century subject. Portraits of the writer as a young woman: re-imagining Charlotte Brontë in biofiction / Kyle Mirmohamadi -- 'The shadow of Henry James': biofication and the distorted image / Daniel Buckingham -- Biofiction versus biography: definitions, goals, and techniques of two versions of Rupert Brooke's Life, the biofiction The great lover by Jill Dawson (2009) and the biography Rupert Brooke: life, death and myth by Nigel Jones (2015) / Patricia Stuart-Reid -- Part three: Biofiction and the twentieth-century subject: focus on Virginia Woolf. Onceness, biofiction, and the living body / Maggie Gee -- 'Time passes' in Maggie Gee's Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014) / Elisabetta Varalda -- Biofiction as corrective justice in Ellen Hawkes and Peter Manso's The shadow of the moth: a novel of espionage with Virginia Woolf (1984) / Monica Latham -- Adeline: a novel of Virginia Woolf (2015) as reflective biography / Elaine Hudson -- Part four: Biofiction and the biopic. Contrarians at the gate: biofiction, the anti-biopic and I, Tonya (2017) / Virginia Newhall Rademacher -- 'Unwrapping Lady Lazarus': female creativity and suicide in The hours (2002) and Sylvia (2003) / Chloe de Lullington |
| Summary |
The twelve essays collected in this work explore the afterlives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers in biographical fiction, or biofiction, and its sister genre, the biopic. The essays situate these genres in relation to their generic, cultural, and ideological contexts, and are organised into four groups. The first locates the origins of biofiction in the historical novel, and in Modernist experiments in life writing, while the second consists of case studies of biofiction about writers from the long nineteenth century: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and R |
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Biographical fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Biographical fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Biographical films -- History and criticism
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Literature & literary studies.
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Biography & True Stories.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Biographical films
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Biographical fiction
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Layne, Bethany, editor
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| ISBN |
1527555364 |
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9781527555365 |
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