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Misrecognitions - by Ben Parker (Hardcover)

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  • Misrecognitions mounts a vigorous defense of the labyrinthine plotting of Victorian novels, notorious for their implausible concluding revelations and coincidences.
  • About the Author: Ben Parker is Assistant Professor of English at Brown University.
  • 198 Pages
  • Literary Criticism, Modern

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About the Book



"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 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.



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.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .63 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.02 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 198
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Modern
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Theme: 19th Century
Format: Hardcover
Author: Ben Parker
Language: English
Street Date: March 15, 2024
TCIN: 91145479
UPC: 9781501774072
Item Number (DPCI): 247-02-2693
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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