Biofiction and DiffÃ©rance: Tracing Threads of (Neo-) Victorian Women Travellers in the Amelia Peabody Emerson Series

Stacey L. Kikendall

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This essay explores how Elizabeth Petersâs Amelia Peabody Emerson series, beginning with Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975), reimagines the world of real Victorian women travellers and the Egyptologist Amelia B. Edwards. I read Petersâs âOtheringâ of the historical subject, evoked as a rewritten and overwritten trace in the fictional Peabody, through Jacques Derridaâs conflicting ideas of diffÃ©rance. The palimpsestic figuration of the protofeminist archaelogist reveals not only how Petersâs biofictionalising of these women is a result not only of interweaving different threads of history and scientific discourse, but also of playing with gender and genre, in ways that destablise and multiply the historical subjectâs referentialty and meanings.

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Neo-Victorian Biofiction

Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects

Series:Â Neo-Victorian Series, Volume: 6Â andÂ Neo-Victorian Series Online

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 04 Sep 2020

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