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- The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture
- The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Life Upon the Exchange: Commodifying the Victorian Subject
- Chapter 1 “A Vile Symptom”: Autobiography and the Commodification of Identity
- Chapter 2 “Portable Property”: Commodity and Identity in Great Expectations
- Chapter 3 Lady Audley’s Portrait: Textuality, Gender, and Power
- Chapter 4 Amnesia, Madness, and Financial Fraud: Ontologies of Loss in Silas Marner and Hard Cash
- Chapter 5 “What Money Can Make of Life”: Willing Subjects and Commodity Culture in Our Mutual Friend
- Chapter 6 The Moonstone, Sacred Identity, and the Material Self
- Conclusion Money Made of Life: The Tichborne Claimant
- Appendix
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Introduction - Life Upon the Exchange: Commodifying the Victorian Subject
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2019
- The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture
- The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Life Upon the Exchange: Commodifying the Victorian Subject
- Chapter 1 “A Vile Symptom”: Autobiography and the Commodification of Identity
- Chapter 2 “Portable Property”: Commodity and Identity in Great Expectations
- Chapter 3 Lady Audley’s Portrait: Textuality, Gender, and Power
- Chapter 4 Amnesia, Madness, and Financial Fraud: Ontologies of Loss in Silas Marner and Hard Cash
- Chapter 5 “What Money Can Make of Life”: Willing Subjects and Commodity Culture in Our Mutual Friend
- Chapter 6 The Moonstone, Sacred Identity, and the Material Self
- Conclusion Money Made of Life: The Tichborne Claimant
- Appendix
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
In 1859 at the venerable age of eighty-four, Lord Thomas Cochrane, tenth Earl of Dundonald and Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom, contracted George Butler Earp to write his Autobiography of a Seaman (1860) recounting his early life and experiences as a naval commander during the Napoleonic Wars. There was much to tell. Having begun in 1793 as a midshipman aboard his uncle’s ship the Hind, Cochrane quickly earned a reputation for daring, and received his first command, the Speedy, in 1800. By mixing unconventional tactics with clever deceptions – he once had the Speedy painted like a Danish brig and hired a Danish quartermaster to complete the masquerade – Cochrane captured fifty ships and more than 500 prisoners in fifteen months while developing a penchant for brutally effective coastal assaults. His crowning achievement came in 1809 at Basque Roads when he led a night foray that drove much of the French fleet aground.
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- The Commodification of Identity in Victorian NarrativeAutobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace, pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019