Personation Plots

Personation PlotsExamines 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

This book explores a rich Gothic tradition that exposes the repressed past and imagines the fates awaiting a failed California

This chapter focuses specifically on the ongoing development of England’s new Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes

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and photographs to reveal the often-overlooked role of girls in the British empire

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Each chapter highlights the most current research related to specific behavioral addictions

explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work

and Jewish masculinities in the United States

The discussion includes analyses of classical Confucian and Daoist texts

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