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Autobiography, Sensation, and the Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative
Sean Grass
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Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace
出版Cambridge University Press, 2019-10-31
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs)Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / CapitalismSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN110848445X9781108484459
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yi2xDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.