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

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

The first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousn

An innovative approach to literary stylistic analysis that targets students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture through provocative interp

The prison system was one of the primary social issues of the Victorian era and a regular focus of debate among the period?s reformers, novelists, and poets. St