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The Gossips’ Choice: Extending the possibilities for biofiction with creative uses of sources
Historical fiction based on historical figures just with their names changed was common in the distant past but fell out of favor in the last century. One reason for this was the additional transparency that biofiction with the protagonist as a named figure can offer. This chapter makes the case that using the practices of older historical fiction combined with the transparency of biofiction in a hybrid fashion, blending the real and the imaginary, offers great scope for bringing women’s lived experiences to life. In this essay, I discuss my own praxis while writing The Gossips’ Choice to illustrate my argument.
History
School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- English
Published in
Authorizing Early Modern European Women. From Biography to BiofictionPages
263 - 270Publisher
Amsterdam University PressVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This book chapter was published in the book Authorizing Early Modern European Women. From Biography to Biofiction [© 2022]. The publisher's website is at https://www.aup.nl/en/Publication date
2021-12-06Copyright date
2022ISBN
9789048552900; 9789048552900; 9789463727143Book series
Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern WorldLanguage
- en