Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction
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"The capacious collection Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction explores a range of biofictions, from early twentieth-century texts, such as Virginia Woolf 's Flush, to more contemporary twenty-first-century titles. . Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction serves as an invaluable new addition to biofiction scholarship, and will no doubt be much-utilized by scholars and students alike." (Stephanie Russo, Biography, Vol. 46 (2), 2023)
"The volume as a whole is of great value to scholars and students of biofiction as a genre. The majority of essays also work in isolation for those interested in the authors and historical subjects represented. . this volume paves the way for a more inclusive and flexible understanding of biofiction. As it stands, it represents a welcome addition to life-writing scholarship." (Bethany Layne, European Journal of Life Writing, Vol. 12, 2023)
"Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction (2024) makes a fine contribution to the Palgrave Studies in Life Writing series. . This book will prove useful to students, especially postgrads, and academics working in English studies, historical fiction, literary studies, life writing (in particular, biography), and women's studies. . Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction was a fine text . ." (Gay Lynch, Life Writing, February 19, 2024)
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Caitríona Ní Dhúill is Professor in German at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Sex in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch (2010). She is co-editor of the journal Austrian Studies , and guest co-editor of a double special issue of Poetics Today (2016) on negative futures. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on gender theory, utopian theory, modernist literature and life writing.
Julia Novak holds a tenure-track professorship for Anglophone Literature and Mediality at the University of Vienna. Her work on life writing and biofiction has appeared in journals such as Biography ; Contemporary Women's Writing ; a/b: Auto/Biography Studies ; Life Writing ; and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing . She has co-edited a special issue on "Women's Lives on Screen" for the European Journal of Life Writing (2021), of which she is an editor, as well as Experiments in Life Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction (Palgrave 2017); Life Writing and Celebrity (Routledge 2020); and the inaugural issue of the Journal of Historical Fictions (2017).