Author: Ann Heilmann
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319713868
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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. In exploring the varied reconstructions and re-imaginations of the historical personality across time, the book illustrates (not least with its cover image) that the ‘real’ James Barry does not exist, any more than does the ‘faithful’ biographical, biofictional or biodramatic rendering of a life in a generically ‘stable’ and discrete form. What Barry represents and how he is represented invariably pinpoints the imaginative, the speculative and the performative: reflections and refractions in the looking glass of genre. Just as ‘James Miranda Barry’, as a subject of cultural inquiry, comes into being and remains in view in the act of crossing gender, so neo-Victorian life-writing constitutes itself through similar acts of boundary transgression. Transgender thus finds its most typical expression in transgenre.
Neo-/Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry
Author: Ann Heilmann
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319713868
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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. In exploring the varied reconstructions and re-imaginations of the historical personality across time, the book illustrates (not least with its cover image) that the ‘real’ James Barry does not exist, any more than does the ‘faithful’ biographical, biofictional or biodramatic rendering of a life in a generically ‘stable’ and discrete form. What Barry represents and how he is represented invariably pinpoints the imaginative, the speculative and the performative: reflections and refractions in the looking glass of genre. Just as ‘James Miranda Barry’, as a subject of cultural inquiry, comes into being and remains in view in the act of crossing gender, so neo-Victorian life-writing constitutes itself through similar acts of boundary transgression. Transgender thus finds its most typical expression in transgenre.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319713868
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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. In exploring the varied reconstructions and re-imaginations of the historical personality across time, the book illustrates (not least with its cover image) that the ‘real’ James Barry does not exist, any more than does the ‘faithful’ biographical, biofictional or biodramatic rendering of a life in a generically ‘stable’ and discrete form. What Barry represents and how he is represented invariably pinpoints the imaginative, the speculative and the performative: reflections and refractions in the looking glass of genre. Just as ‘James Miranda Barry’, as a subject of cultural inquiry, comes into being and remains in view in the act of crossing gender, so neo-Victorian life-writing constitutes itself through similar acts of boundary transgression. Transgender thus finds its most typical expression in transgenre.
Introduction to Homoeopathic Prescribing
Author: S. M. Gunavante
Publisher: B. Jain Publishers
ISBN: 9788170213093
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A comprehensive book on all aspects of homeopathy except Meteria medica written for the medical graduates of modem medicine .
Publisher: B. Jain Publishers
ISBN: 9788170213093
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A comprehensive book on all aspects of homeopathy except Meteria medica written for the medical graduates of modem medicine .
The Exploration of Australia
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Winchester Cathedral Close
Author: John Vaughan
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
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A friend in need [by mrs. T.E. Freeman].
Author: mrs. T E Freeman
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Democratic Socialism in Britain, Vol. 7
Author: David Reisman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000419401
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The texts in this collection of 10 volumes demonstrate both the diversity and continuity in British theories of democratic socialism. The selection encompasses the Ricardian socialists, the Christian socialists, and the Fabian socialists. Volume 7 includes ‘Principles of Economic Planning’ by G.D.H.Cole.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000419401
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The texts in this collection of 10 volumes demonstrate both the diversity and continuity in British theories of democratic socialism. The selection encompasses the Ricardian socialists, the Christian socialists, and the Fabian socialists. Volume 7 includes ‘Principles of Economic Planning’ by G.D.H.Cole.
Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Pages : 668
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The Hahnemannian Advocate
Author: H W Pierson
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Category : Homeopathy
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Homeopathy
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art
Author: Robert Walsh
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Pages : 704
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The Lancet
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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