3. “The Ghosts of Individual Peculiarities” Murder and Interpretation in Dickens

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1 Genres of Identification
6. 1. Charming Faces and the Problem of Identification 23
7. 2. Identity Noir 49
8. 3. “The Ghosts of Individual Peculiarities” Murder and Interpretation in Dickens 65
9. 4. “A Puzzle of Character” Francis Iles and Narratives of Criminality in the 1930s 82
10. Part 2 The Body Captured
11. 5. The Art of Identification The Skeleton and Human Identity 101
12. 6. Becoming More Biological Ruth Ozeki and the Postgenomic Ethnoracial Novel 121
13. 7. Identification Made Visible Photographic Evidence and Russell Williams 139
14. Part 3 Surveillant Technologies
15. 8. The Face in the Biometric Passport 159
16. 9. The Bourne Identifi cation Rex Ferguson 182
17. 10. Identifi cation and the “Intelligent City” 202
18. 11. Jennifer Egan and the Database 223
19. Contributors 245
20. Index 249