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Misrecognitions: Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel

Contributor(s): Parker, Ben (Author)

ISBN: 9781501774072

Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Pub Date: March 15, 2024

Dewey: 820.9008

LCCN: 2023032687

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.63" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.02 lbs) 198 pages

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Description: "In Misrecognitions, Ben Parker mounts a defense of novelistic recognition scenes based on Karl Marx's account of commodity fetishism and reification. The novel as a form, Parker argues, is structured by these misrecognitions that are constitutive of subjectivity in capitalism"--

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Misrecognitions makes you want to revisit your favorite modernist novel in this new light.

-- "Cambridge Quarterly"

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