Title Identification practices in twentieth-century fiction / Rex Ferguson

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (235 pages) Contents Impressions: Conrad's and Freud's fingerprints -- Registrations: Bowen's and Greene's identity cards -- Secretions: Ballard's DNA -- Applications: DeLillo's and Egan's digital doubles -- Conclusion: identifying Mr. Ripley Summary "The task of identifying the individual has given rise to a number of technical innovations, including fingerprint analysis and DNA profiling. A range of methods has also been created for storing and classifying people's identities, such as identity cards and digital records. Identification Practices and Twentieth-Century Fiction tests the hypothesis that these techniques and methods, as practised in the UK and US in the long twentieth century, are inherently related to the literary representation of self-identity from the same period. Until now, the question of 'who one is' in the sense of formal identification has remained detached from the question of 'who one is' in terms of the representation of unique individuality. Placing these two questions in dialogue allows for a re-evaluation of the various ways in which uniqueness has been constructed during the period and for a reassessment of the historical and literary historical context of such construction. In chapters ranging across the development of fingerprinting, the institution of identity cards during the Second World War, DNA profiling and contemporary digital surveillance, and an analysis of writing by authors including Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, J.G. Ballard, Don DeLillo, and Jennifer Egan, Identification Practices and Twentieth-Century Fiction makes an original contribution to Literary Studies, History, and Cultural Studies"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on December 16, 2021) Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Identification (Psychology) in literature. American fiction English fiction Identification (Psychology) in literature Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192634993 0192634992 9780192635006 019263500X 9780191897948 0191897949

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