In the first half of the nineteenth century autobiography became, for the first time, an explicitly commercial genre. Drawing together quantitative data on the

A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.

Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.

An exploration of the commodification of autobiography 1820-1860 in relation to shifting fictional representations of identity.

Examines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.