Authorizing Early Modern European Women, From Biography to Biofiction

Year

2022

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

17-May-2026

Keywords

Art & Art History ; Feminist & Women's Studies ; History ; Language & Literature

Description

A surge in recent attention to the parameters of biofiction,¹ thanks in large part to the pioneering work of Michael Lackey, has illuminated some of the tensions distinguishing critical reception of novels with that label.² Indeed, it’s not simply a matter of scholarship. When contemporary journalists respond to a literary genre with reporting that connects the challenges facing contemporary novelists with “ripped-from-the-headlines events,” their attention to the implications of biofiction has relevance for the general reader as well as the scholar. A case in point: Ron Charles, the Book World Critic for The Washington Post, broke a story in which...