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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... vol. 16 no. 2 March 2019 of Life Writing est. 2004 Life Writing
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Fictionalisation in Biography : Creating the Dickens Myth, Rosemary Kay , single work criticism

'‘Dickens’ is a universal, global commodity. Our contemporary cultural memorialisation of the celebrity-author relies less on historical facts and more on the overlay of reductive and selective renditions created in texts such as biographies or biofictions. Harnessing both creative and academic directives of research, and drawing on my insights from my praxis of writing a neo-Victorian biographical novel, this article interrogates three representations of Dickens, placing my own rendition within the field of biographical/biofictional conceptualisations of the Victorian author.' (Publication abstract)

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