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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Heilmann, Ann (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Sociology.; Civilization-History.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Gender Studies.; Cultural History.

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. This cultural history of Barry's afterlives in Victorian to contemporary (neo-Victori...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.