In the first half of the nineteenth century autobiography became, for the first time, an explicitly commercial genre. Drawing together quantitative data on the

An exploration of the commodification of autobiography 1820-1860 in relation to shifting fictional representations of identity.

A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.

Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.

Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.