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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. 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. .

Literature. --- Civilization --- Literature, Modern --- Sociology. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Gender expression. --- Gender identity. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Gender Studies. --- Cultural History. --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Expression, Gender --- Sex role --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Literature --- Cultural history --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- History. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- Psychological aspects --- Barry, James, --- Barry, James Miranda, --- Bulkley, Margaret Anne, --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Civilization-History. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Civilization—History.

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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. In exploring the varied reconstructions and re-imaginations of the historical personality across time, the book illustrates 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 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. .

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology --- Literature --- History of civilization --- sociologie --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- literatuur --- gender --- transseksualiteit --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999

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Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century political liberation movements, the New Woman represents a site of cultural and socio-political contestation and acts as a marker of modernity. This book explores the diversity of meanings ascribed to the New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted withi

Feminism. --- Femininity. --- Feminist theory. --- Women --- Consumer behavior. --- Behavior, Consumer --- Buyer behavior --- Decision making, Consumer --- Human behavior --- Consumer profiling --- Market surveys --- Female identity --- Feminine identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Femininity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Identity. --- Philosophy --- Emancipation

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American fiction --- American fiction --- English fiction --- English fiction --- Fiction --- Women and literature --- Women and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- Authorship --- History --- History

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