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<p>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

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Author

Ann Heilmann

Publisher

Springer International Publishing Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319713861

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Sociology, History, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24