Biofictions : the rewriting of romantic lives in contemporary fiction and drama
"The starting point for this collection of essays is the observation that as a literary subject, fictionalized and dramatized "lives" in the form of fictional biographies/biographical fiction, bio-dramas, and bio-pics are very much in evidence on the contemporary scene. And it appears that the lives of the British Romantics and the myths surrounding them have a special appeal for contemporary writers. Biofictions sets out to explore this renewed interest in Romantic artist-figures in the context of the current renaissance of "life-writing."" --Book Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
Camden House, Columbia, SC, 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
229 pages ; 24 cm.
9781571131232, 157113123X
40460043
Introduction - Martin MiddekeAn Intertextual Quest for Thomas Chatterton: The Deconstruction of the Romantic Cult of Originality and the Paradoxes of Life-Writing in Peter Ackroyd's Fictional Metabiography Chattertonin Peter Ackroyd's Fictional Metabiography Chattert - Ansgar NuenningDangerous Enthusiasm: The Appropriation of William Blake in Adrian Mitchell's Tyger - Bernhard ReitzAuld Acquaintance: New Lives of Scott and Hogg - Jill RubensteinAnn Jellicoe's and Howard Brenton's Shelley - Uwe BoekerThe Dramatist as Reader: Liz Lochhead's Play Blood and Ice - Silvia MergenthalThe Truth of Fiction -- The Fiction of Truth: Judith Chernaik's Mab's Daughters - Beate Neumeier"The Life We Imagine": Byron's and Polidori's Memoirs as Character Construction - Annegret MaackIn Arcadia Nemo: The Pastoral of Romanticism - Peter Paul Schnierer"A Playful Desire of Imitation": The Ghost Stories at Diodati and A Single Summer With L.B. - Frances WilsonPoetry and Cyberpunk: Science Fiction and Romantic Biography - Christine Kenyon JonesElemental, My Dear Clare: The Case of the Missing Poet - Christopher Innes(Co-author: Sid Sondergard) Biodepictions of Mary Shelley: The Romantic Woman Artist as Mother of Monsters - Ramona Ralston
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