Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative - Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Grass, Sean (Rochester Institute of Technology Grass, Grass Sean
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108484459
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48445-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; English, Society & culture: general, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Society and culture: general