Tarr Personation Plots

Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation Fiction
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9085-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tarr, Clayton Carlyle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. Body

1. Skins to Jump Into
Clothes in A Woman in Spite of Herself
Cosmetics in No Name

2. Altered beyond Chance of Recognition
Surgery in Checkmate
Blood Transfusion in Blood

First Interlude: Alice Grey

Part II. Mind

3. That Lost Personality
Madness in Lady Audley’s Secret
Epilepsy in Thou Art the Man

4. This Unclean Spirit of Imitation
Mesmerism in The Notting Hill Mystery
Opium in The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Second Interlude: Mary Jane Furneaux

Part III. Matter

5. A Daring Imposture
Registers in The Woman in White
Wills in Verner’s Pride

6. That Mysterious Paper Currency
Refuse in Our Mutual Friend
Photographs in Unconventional

Afterword: Reverse Personation

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Clayton Carlyle Tarr is Lecturer in English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.