The Doctor’s Anatomy: The Androgynous Performance of Gender and (Neo-)Victorian Sexual Politics in Patricia Duncker’s James Miranda Barry
| dc.contributor.author | Ureczky, Eszter | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-02-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Patricia Duncker’s 1999 neo-Victorian novel is a fictional biography of the legendary Victorian military surgeon, James Miranda Barry, rumored to be a hermaphrodite. Duncker’s postmodern feminist fiction recreates the medical discourse, as well as the body and sexual politics of the Victorian era by writing these nineteenth-century somatic ideologies onto the ambiguously gendered body of Barry. Interrogating the poetic and political strategies of creating medicine as a masculinized profession from a cultural studies point of view, the essay argues that Duncker’s novel can be contextualized within a recent tendency in contemporary British fiction that could be hypothesized as medico-historical metafiction, indirectly addressing twenty-first-century biopolitical questions about the cultural inscription of gender roles and bodily normality by (re)telling a Victorian narrative. These questions are examined from three aspects: the neo-Victorian historical novel as a feminist genre, the androgyne as a late-Victorian subtype of the grotesque freak, and nineteenth-century female identities as the reservoir of disempowering pseudo-choices. (EU) | en |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2018) , | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2732-0421 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1218-7364 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 2 | |
| dc.identifier.jtitle | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2437/294848 | en |
| dc.identifier.volume | 24 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.relation | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7229 | |
| dc.rights.access | Open Access | |
| dc.rights.owner | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies | |
| dc.subject | Patricia Duncker | en |
| dc.subject | James Miranda Barry | en |
| dc.subject | neo-Victorian | en |
| dc.title | The Doctor’s Anatomy: The Androgynous Performance of Gender and (Neo-)Victorian Sexual Politics in Patricia Duncker’s James Miranda Barry | en |
| dc.type | folyóiratcikk | hu |
| dc.type | article | en |
| dc.type.detailed | idegen nyelvű folyóiratközlemény hazai lapban | hu |
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