The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative

The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 1108706207
ISBN-13 : 9781108706209
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Download or read book The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative written by Sean Grass and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the nineteenth century autobiography became, for the first time, an explicitly commercial genre. Drawing together quantitative data on the Victorian book market, insights from the business ledgers of Victorian publishers and close readings of mid-century novels, Sean Grass demonstrates the close links between these genres and broader Victorian textual and material cultures. This book offers fresh perspectives on major works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade, while also featuring archival research that reveals the volume, diversity, and marketability of Victorian autobiographical texts for the first time. Grass presents life-writing not as a stand-alone genre, but as an integral part of a broader movement of literary, cultural, legal and economic practices through which the Victorians transformed identity into a textual object of capitalist exchange.


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