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

by Ann Heilmann

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030100480
• ISBN13: 9783030100483
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"