Identification practices in twentieth-century fiction / Rex Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferguson, Rex, 1977- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature--History.

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Identifying the individual in the 20th century has given rise to technical innovations including fingerprint analysis and DNA profiling, as well as methods for classifying identities, such as identity cards and digital records. This book explores the link between these techniques and the literary representation of self-identity in the same period.

Contents:

Cover

Identification Practices in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

1: Impressions: Conrad's and Freud's Fingerprints

Lifting the Print

Analysing the Trace

Reading the Impression

Conclusion

2: Registrations: Bowen's and Greene's Identity Cards

The National Registration Identity Card and Wartime Identification

Graham Greene and the Registration of the Subject

Bowen's Impossible Characters

3: Secretions: Ballard's DNA

Coded Fluids

Primitive Projections

4: Applications: DeLillo's and Egan's Digital Doubles

Digital Bodies and The Surveillant Assemblage

Databases, Non-places, and Look at Me

Cosmopolis and the Image of Data

Conclusion: Identifying Mr Ripley

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0-19-263500-X

0-19-189794-9

0-19-263499-2

OCLC:

1259593517