1510953Personation Plotshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/personation-plots/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/657486/699ce5f6-2d37-4805-b800-324e4cf0065a.jpg?v=638335681213370000645717MXNState University of New York PressInStock/Ebooks/Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.The first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousness. The mid-nineteenth century was marked by extensive medico-legal efforts to understand the body as the sole signifier of identity. The sensation genre, which enjoyed remarkable popularity in the 1860s and 1870s, at once reflected and challenged this discourse. In their frequent representations of identity fraud, sensation writers demonstrated that the body could never guarantee a persons identity. The body is malleable and untrustworthy, and the identity it is supposed to signify is governed by the caprices of the human mind and the growing authority of paper matter. Both a wide-ranging literary analysis and a portrait of the age, Personation Plots reads canonical texts by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Charles Dickens alongside several lesser-known sensation novels. The study, which anticipates debates over biometric identification practices in our own time, also features brief criminal biographies of two of the nineteenth centurys greatest impostors, Alice Grey and Mary Jane Furneaux, and concludes with an afterword on imposture in the late-Victorian Gothic....1493419Personation Plots645717https://www.gandhi.com.mx/personation-plots/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/657486/699ce5f6-2d37-4805-b800-324e4cf0065a.jpg?v=638335681213370000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20229781438490854_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_The first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousness. The mid-nineteenth century was marked by extensive medico-legal efforts to understand the body as the sole signifier of identity. The sensation genre, which enjoyed remarkable popularity in the 1860s and 1870s, at once reflected and challenged this discourse. In their frequent representations of identity fraud, sensation writers demonstrated that the body could never guarantee a persons identity. The body is malleable and untrustworthy, and the identity it is supposed to signify is governed by the caprices of the human mind and the growing authority of paper matter. Both a wide-ranging literary analysis and a portrait of the age, Personation Plots reads canonical texts by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Charles Dickens alongside several lesser-known sensation novels. The study, which anticipates debates over biometric identification practices in our own time, also features brief criminal biographies of two of the nineteenth centurys greatest impostors, Alice Grey and Mary Jane Furneaux, and concludes with an afterword on imposture in the late-Victorian Gothic, and anticipates debates over biometric identification practices in our own time....9781438490854_State University of New York Presslibro_electonico_c3f349dd-6e15-322e-bc00-30a5530fed42_9781438490854;9781438490854_9781438490854Clayton CarlyleInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram30-epub-6904fd2d-f556-4eeb-9871-424cc51a51c1.epub2022-11-01T00:00:00+00:00State University of New York Press