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Personation Plots: Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation Fiction - Couverture souple

Livre 26 sur 30: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Tarr, Clayton Carlyle

 
9781438490847: Personation Plots: Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation Fiction
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ISBN 10 : 1438490844 ISBN 13 : 9781438490847
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2023

Synopsis

Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.

The first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousness. The mid-nineteenth century was marked by extensive medico-legal efforts to understand the body as the sole signifier of identity. The sensation genre, which enjoyed remarkable popularity in the 1860s and 1870s, at once reflected and challenged this discourse. In their frequent representations of identity fraud, sensation writers demonstrated that the body could never guarantee a person's identity. The body is malleable and untrustworthy, and the identity it is supposed to signify is governed by the caprices of the human mind and the growing authority of paper matter. Both a wide-ranging literary analysis and a portrait of the age, Personation Plots reads canonical texts by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Charles Dickens alongside several lesser-known sensation novels. The study, which anticipates debates over biometric identification practices in our own time, also features brief criminal biographies of two of the nineteenth century's greatest impostors, Alice Grey and Mary Jane Furneaux, and concludes with an afterword on imposture in the late-Victorian Gothic.

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À propos de l'auteur

Clayton Carlyle Tarr is Lecturer in English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1438490844
ISBN 13 
9781438490847
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
266
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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