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
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher
