The first book to study the rise of Victorian autobiography as a marketplace phenomenon rather than a vehicle for constructing identity, and to relate life-writing to broader cultural impulses to imagine identity as a textual thing. It will particularly appeal to scholars of nineteenth-century literature, book history and material culture.
The first book to study the rise of Victorian autobiography as a marketplace phenomenon rather than a vehicle for constructing identity, and to relate life-writing to broader cultural impulses to imagine identity as a textual thing. It will particularly appeal to scholars of nineteenth-century literature, book history and material culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sean Grass is Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology and is the author of The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner (2003), Charles Dickens's 'Our Mutual Friend': A Publishing History (2014), and several essays on Victorian literature and culture. He received two awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the current work.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: life upon the exchange: commodifying the Victorian subject 1. 'A vile symptom': autobiography and the commodification of identity 2. 'Portable property': commodity and identity in Great Expectations 3. Lady Audley's portrait: textuality, gender, and power 4. Amnesia, madness, and financial fraud: ontologies of loss in Silas Marner and Hard Cash 5. 'What money can make of life': willing subjects and commodity culture in Our Mutual Friend 6. The Moonstone, sacred identity, and the material self Conclusion: money made of life: the Tichborne claimant.
Introduction: life upon the exchange: commodifying the Victorian subject 1. 'A vile symptom': autobiography and the commodification of identity 2. 'Portable property': commodity and identity in Great Expectations 3. Lady Audley's portrait: textuality, gender, and power 4. Amnesia, madness, and financial fraud: ontologies of loss in Silas Marner and Hard Cash 5. 'What money can make of life': willing subjects and commodity culture in Our Mutual Friend 6. The Moonstone, sacred identity, and the material self Conclusion: money made of life: the Tichborne claimant.
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