Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction

Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. What has not yet been scholarly acknowledged or documented is that the Irish played a crucial role in the origins, evolution, rise, and now dominance of biofiction.

Michael Lackey first examines the groundbreaking biofictions that Oscar Wilde and...