The Art of Identification : Forensics, Surveillance, Identity /

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"A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring current scholarship on the history of human identification. Examines how techniques of identification are entangled within a wider sphere of cultural identity formation"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Purdon, James, 1983- (Editor), Littlefield, Melissa M., 1979- (Editor), Ferguson, Rex, 1977- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Identification.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Modern > General.
Identification > Social aspects > History.
Identification > History.
Identity (Philosophical concept) > History.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature > History.
Essays.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Charming faces and the problem of identification / Matt Houlbrook
  • Identity noir / James Purdon
  • "The ghosts of individual pecularities" : murder and interpretation in Dickens / Andrew Mangham
  • "A puzzle of character" : Francis Iles and narrative of criminality in the 1930s / Victoria Stewart
  • The art of identification : the skeleton and human identity / Rebecca Gowland and Tim Thompson
  • Becoming more biological : Ruth Ozeki and the postgenomic ethnoracial novel / Patricia E. Chu
  • Identification made visible : photographic evidence and Russell Williams / Jonathan Finn
  • The face in the biometric passport / Liv Hausken
  • The Bourne identification / Rex Ferguson
  • Identification and the "intelligent city" / Dorothy Butchard
  • Jennifer Egan and the database / Rob Lederer.

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