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.
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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