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" Neo-/Victorian biographilia and James Miranda Barry : "
Ann Heilmann.
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864253
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Heilmann, Ann
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Neo-/Victorian biographilia and James Miranda Barry : : a study in transgender and transgenre /\ Ann Heilmann.
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Cham :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2018.
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1 online resource
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3319713868
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: 9783319713861
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9783319713854
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Writing Barry -- Writing Gender/Genre Crossing: An Introduction; (Self- )Representations: Gender, Genre and Transgression; Meta/Textual Impersonations: Neo-Victorian Biographilia; Passing Reflections and Structures; Chapter 2: '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
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Pronomial (Mis)Appropriations: 'I Must Still Use the "Masculine"'/'I Must Retain the Feminine Gender'166Chapter 3: 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; Chapter 4: Performances in Gender and Genre: Barry in Contemporary Postmodernist Biodrama, Biography and Biofiction; 'The Mourner of Myself': Duality, Conflict and Redemption in Biodrama13; The Biographer's Tale: The Authorial Self-Staging of Biographiction
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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-Victorian) life-writing ('biographilia') examines the textual and performative strategies of biography, biofiction and biodrama of the last one and a half centuries.
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Barry, James,1795-1865.
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Barry, James,1795-1865.
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Gender nonconformity-- Great Britain-- History-- Victoria, 1837-1901.
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Gender nonconformity.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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Great Britain.
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306.768
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HQ77.95.G7
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