Misrecognitions: Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel

Misrecognitions mounts a vigorous defense of the labyrinthine plotting of Victorian novels, notorious for their implausible concluding...
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Author: Ben Parker
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Misrecognitions: Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel by Parker, Ben

Misrecognitions: Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel

$184.78

Misrecognitions: Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel

$184.78
Author: Ben Parker
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Ben Parker
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 03/15/2024
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781501774072

About the Author

Ben Parker is Assistant Professor of English at Brown University. His writing has appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, New Literary History, Novel, boundary 2, Film Quarterly, and n+1.

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