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PublisherCornell University Press
ISBN-101501774077
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Book TitleMisrecognitions : Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel
Number of Pages198 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEurope / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Modern / 19th Century
Publication Year2024
GenreLiterary Criticism, History
AuthorBen Parker
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight32.1 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-032687
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal820.9008
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Capital's Plot Hole 1. Financial Crisis and the Partitions of Subjectivity in Little Dorrit 2. Interest-Bearing Capital and the Displacement of Affect in The Last Chronicle of Barset 3. The Fetishism of the Subject and Its Secret in The Portrait of a Lady 4. The Fragmentation of Subject and Object in Sherlock Holmes Conclusion: From Reification to the Theory of the Novel
SynopsisMisrecognitions mounts a vigorous defense of the labyrinthine plotting of Victorian novels, notorious for their implausible concluding revelations and coincidences. Critics have long decried Victorian recognition scenes--the reunions and retroactive discoveries of identity that too conveniently bring the story to a close--as regrettable contrivances. Ben Parker counters this view by showing how these recognition scenes offer a critique of the social and economic misrecognitions at work in nineteenth-century capitalism. Through a meticulous analysis of novels by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James, as well as Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, Misrecognitions tracks how the Victorian novel translates the financialized abstractions of capital into dramas of buried secrets and disguised relations. Drawing on Karl Marx's account of commodity fetishism and reification, Parker contends that, by configuring capital as an enigma to be unveiled, Victorian recognition scenes dramatize the inversions of agency and temporality that are repressed in capitalist production. In plotting capital as an agent of opacity and misdirection, Victorian novels and their characteristic dialectic of illusion and illumination reveal the plot hole in capitalism itself., Misrecognitions mounts a vigorous defense of the labyrinthine plotting of Victorian novels, notorious for their implausible concluding revelations and coincidences. Critics have long decried Victorian recognition scenes?the reunions and retroactive discoveries of identity that too conveniently bring the story to a close?as regrettable contrivances. Ben Parker counters this view by showing how these recognition scenes offer a critique of the social and economic misrecognitions at work in nineteenth-century capitalism. Through a meticulous analysis of novels by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James, as well as Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, Misrecognitions tracks how the Victorian novel translates the financialized abstractions of capital into dramas of buried secrets and disguised relations. Drawing on Karl Marx's account of commodity fetishism and reification, Parker contends that, by configuring capital as an enigma to be unveiled, Victorian recognition scenes dramatize the inversions of agency and temporality that are repressed in capitalist production. In plotting capital as an agent of opacity and misdirection, Victorian novels and their characteristic dialectic of illusion and illumination reveal the plot hole in capitalism itself.
LC Classification NumberPN56.R33P37 2024
