Biofictions - The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama

A pioneering collection of articles on fictionalized biographies of the Romantics in contemporary fiction and drama.

List of contents

Introduction - Martin Middeke
An 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 Nuenning
Dangerous Enthusiasm: The Appropriation of William Blake in Adrian Mitchell's Tyger - Bernhard Reitz
Auld Acquaintance: New Lives of Scott and Hogg - Jill Rubenstein
Ann Jellicoe's and Howard Brenton's Shelley - Uwe Boeker
The Dramatist as Reader: Liz Lochhead's Play Blood and Ice - Silvia Mergenthal
The 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 Maack
In 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 Wilson
Poetry and Cyberpunk: Science Fiction and Romantic Biography - Christine Kenyon Jones
Elemental, 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

About the author

Martin Middeke, Werner Huber

Product details

• Authors: Martin Middeke
• Assisted by: Werner Huber (Editor), Martin Middeke (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9781571131232
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-123-2
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 239 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture; European Studies in North Amer
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies