How Long to Read Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography

How Long Does it Take to Read Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography by Heidi L. Pennington

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is the first book-length study of the fictional autobiography, a subgenre that is at once widely recognizable and rarely examined as a literary form with its own history and dynamics of interpretation. Heidi L. Pennington shows that the narrative form and genre expectations associated with the fictional autobiography in the Victorian period engages readers in a sustained meditation on the fictional processes that construct selfhood both in and beyond the text. Through close readings of Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and other well-known examples of the subgenre, Pennington shows how the Victorian fictional autobiography subtly but persistently illustrates that all identities are fictions. Despite the subgenre’s radical implications regarding the nature of personal identity, fictional autobiographies were popular in their own time and continue to inspire devotion in readers. This study sheds new light on what makes this subgenre so compelling, up to and including in the present historical moment of precipitous social and technological change. As we continue to grapple with the existential question of what determines “who we really are,” this book explores the risks and rewards of embracing conscious acts of fictional self-production in an unstable world.

How long is Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography?

Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography by Heidi L. Pennington is 264 pages long, and a total of 67,056 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography aloud.

What Reading Level is Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography?

Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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