Becoming Anne Lister

Diaries, Adaptations, and Afterlives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Becoming Anne Lister: Diaries, Adaptations, and Afterlives examines Anne Lister’s historical legacy as a prolific diarist, landowner, and queer woman, as well as her representation in transmedia adaptations in neo-Victorian literature, film and television.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-19
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor282
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783032255594

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Sarah E. Maier, PhD is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Her latest work includes Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives (Palgrave 2024), and Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen (2025 with Friars) while her current research is on neo-Victorian biofiction(s) of authors and artists. Rachel M. Friars, PhD is an independent scholar in Sussex, New Brunswick whose work includes Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen (2025 with Maier). Friars has written on neo-Victorianism, nineteenth-century lesbian literature and history, life writing, true crime, and the Gothic in Neo-Victorian Studies, Crime Studies Journal, Studies in the Novel, and The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism.

Section One: Lister and Life Writing.- Chapter 1. Lesbian Life Writing.- Chapter 2. Early Inklings: 1806–1818.- Chapter 3.“My Oddity”: 1819–1829.- Chapter 4. Becoming “Jack”: 1830 1840.- Section Two: Secrets Adapted and Exposed.- Chapter 5. Biofictional Adaptation(s).- Chapter 6. Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister.-- Chapter 7. Gentleman Jack.- Chapter 8. Novel Lister(s).- Section Three: Afterlife.- Chapter 9. Interview: Sally Wainwright.- Chapter 10. Meeting the Moment: The Effect(s) of Gentleman Jack.