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    It’s not hard to find biographers writing about the act of researching a biography.

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    • One of my favourite biographers, Richard Holmes has done it here and here, and there’s a whole literature on the theory and practice of biography. This book, however, looks at the writing of biography, rather than the researching of it.

    It concentrates on the creation of the biographical text as completed artefact, rather than the ‘journey’ that the biographer undertakes in an attempt to understand and convey the subject’s inner life.

    In her preface, Paula Backscheider notes with frustration that reviewers of biographies often retell the subject’s life gleaned from the very biography that they are reviewing without engaging in questions of selection, organization or presentation.

    These questions are the focus of this book.

    The author has taken a rather spread-sh

    Chapter 3 Biofictional Author Figures and Post-authentic Truths

    Abstract

    This chapter focuses on neo-Victorian biofictions of writer/artist figures. It introduces the relevance of biofiction as a cultural phenomenon that should also be appraised in the light of the relationship between literature and the philosophical notions of value and truth, and surveys the crucial implications that entangle biofictions, biography, and the construction of cultural memory. The essay moves on to examine the notion of post-authenticity as an encompassing critical perspective on neo-Victorian fiction and then briefly considers some biofictions featuring the lives of Victorian authors and artists, notably A.S. Byatt’s ‘The Conjugial Angel’ (1992) and Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze (2009), before turning to Julian Barnes’ Arthur & George (2005) as its main case study. The novel is analysed as an outstanding neo-Victorian biofiction, which probes into epistemological instabilities, revealing ethical inflections and aesthetic strengths through the reconstruction of Arthur Conan Doyle’s involvement in a legal case that affected the course of English justice and the British legal system.

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