Neo-Victorian Biofiction: Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects by Kohlke

Neo-Victorian Biofiction: Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004434134)

Vendor: Marie-Luise Kohlke
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Format: Hardcover
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Neo-Victorian Biofiction: Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects by Kohlke

Neo-Victorian Biofiction: Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects

$174.00
Neo-Victorian Biofiction: Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects by Kohlke

Neo-Victorian Biofiction: Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects

$174.00
Format: Hardcover
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This 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 exposé, 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.

Author: Marie-Luise Kohlke
ISBN-10: 9004434135
ISBN-13: 9789004434134
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2020
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.10d
By Marie-Luise Kohlke
By Marie-Luise Kohlke
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Marie-Luise Kohlke, Ph.D. (2000), is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea University (Wales, UK) and General/Founding Editor of Neo-Victorian Studies - www.neovictorianstudies.com. Besides her series co-editorship of Brill │Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series, she has published numerous chapters and articles on neo-Victorianism and trauma literature.

Christian Gutleben, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor of English Literature at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France) and Chief Editor of the journal Cycnos. He has published several monographs and many papers on contemporary fiction and film and is the series co-editor of Brill│Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series.

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