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

A transnational study of how settler colonialism remade the Victorian novel and political economy by challenging ideas of British identity.

What is style, and why does it matter? This book answers these questions by recovering the concept of 'stylistic virtue,' once foundational to rhetoric and aest