{"product_id":"misrecognitions-plotting-capital-in-the-victorian-novel-hardback-9781501774072","title":"Misrecognitions; Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel (Hardback) 9781501774072","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMisrecognitions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePlotting Capital in the Victorian Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBen Parker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501774072\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e198 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMisrecognitions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e mounts a vigorous defense of the labyrinthine plotting of Victorian novels, notorious for their implausible concluding revelations and coincidences.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough a meticulous analysis of novels by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James, as well as Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, \u003ci\u003eMisrecognitions\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Capital's Plot Hole\u003cbr\u003e 1. Financial Crisis and the Partitions of Subjectivity in Little Dorrit\u003cbr\u003e 2. Interest-Bearing Capital and the Displacement of Affect in The Last Chronicle of Barset\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Fetishism of the Subject and Its Secret in The Portrait of a Lady\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Fragmentation of Subject and Object in Sherlock Holmes\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: From Reification to the Theory of the Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52695290741016,"sku":"9781501774072","price":36.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/misrecognitions-plotting-capital-in-the-victorian-novel-hardback-9781501774072","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}