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OverviewIn 1930 Danish artist Einar Wegener underwent a series of surgeries to live as Lili Ilse Elvenes (more commonly known as Lili Elbe). Her life story, Fra Mand til Kvinde (From Man to Woman), published in Copenhagen in 1931, is the first popular full-length (auto)biographical narrative of a subject who undergoes genital transformation surgery (Genitalumwandlung). In Man Into Woman: A Comparative Scholarly Edition, Pamela L. Caughie and Sabine Meyer present the full text of the 1933 American edition of Elbe’s work with comprehensive notes on textual and paratextual variants across the four published editions in three languages. This edition also includes a substantial scholarly introduction which situates the historical and intellectual context of Elbe’s work, as well as new essays on the work by leading scholars in transgender studies and modernist literature, and critical coverage of the 2015 biopic, The Danish Girl. This print edition has a digital companion: the Lili Elbe Digital Archive (www.lilielbe.org). Launched on July 6, 2019, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) where Lili Elbe was initially examined, the Lili Elbe Digital Archive hosts the German typescript and all four editions of this narrative published in Danish, German, and English between 1931 and 1933, with English translations of the Danish edition and the typescript. Many letters from archives and contemporaneous articles noted in this print edition may be found in the digital archive. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lili Elbe , Professor Pamela L. Caughie (Loyola University of Chicago, USA) , Dr Sabine Meyer (Independent Scholar, Germany)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.712kg ISBN: 9781350021495ISBN 10: 1350021490 Pages: 322 Publication Date: 20 February 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Archival sources Note on the Edition Chronology List of Illustrations Introduction Part I: A Short Life of Lili Elbe Part II:A Short History of Sexology Part III: Man into Woman and Modernist Life Writing Part IV: Compositional and Publication History Part V: Contributors’ Essays Corpus: Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Sex Change Textual Notes New Essays on Man into Woman: Madelyn Detloff, “The Binary Bind: Inversion, Intersexuality and Interest in a Very Queer Künstlerroman” Sølve M. Holm, “Current and Historical Notions of Sexed Embodiment and Transition in Relation to Lili Elvenes” Michael Levenson, “Man into Woman: A Modernist Experimental Genre” Tim Armstrong, “Magic and Medicine: Man into Woman and Anthropology” Tobias Raun, “Getting the Lili We Deserve? Telling a Different Story of Lili Elbe through the Portraits of Gerda Wegener” Eliza Steinbock, “A Pretty Knot of Lilies: Disentangling Lili Elbe's longue durée in Pop Culture” Contributors Bibliography IndexReviewsThose working on gender and sex identity, trans and intersex history, and the extraordinary lives of Gerda Wegener and Lili Elbe have been anxiously awaiting the publication of an authoritative edition of Elbe's Man into Woman. Pamela Caughie and Sabine Meyer have put together a superb edition that will significantly advance scholarship and be a crucial resource for decades. Bloomsbury's scholarly edition of Lili Elbe's Man into Woman testifies to the value of textual recovery. This splendid work, with its excellent introduction and probing essays, will set into motion substantive conversations about gender and sex identity and trans and intersex history for decades. Bloomsbury's Man into Woman perfectly models what great scholarly editions can do: make available a mind- and culture-transforming text and provide an insightful history and first-rate essays for understanding the work. Scholars will reference this edition for decades. * Michael Lackey, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota Morris, USA * Author InformationLili Ilse Elvenes (Lili Elbe), born in Denmark as Einar Wegener, died in Dresden in September 1931. Pamela L Caughie, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, USA, is a senior modernist scholar and gender theorist. She is founder and co-director of the Modernist Networks digital consortium and a coeditor of Woolf Online, a digital archive of Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. Her most recent books include, as editor, Disciplining Modernism (2009) and Virginia Woolf Writing the World (2015). Sabine Meyer is a postdoc scholar at the Department of Northern European Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. She was a research consultant for the 2015 film The Danish Girl and author of the most comprehensive book on Elbe to date, “Wie Lili zu einem richtigen Mädchen wurde” – Lili Elbe: Zur Konstruktion von Geschlecht und Identität zwischen Medialisierung, Regulierung und Subjektivierung (2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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