Author: Jordan Kistler

S. Pearl Brilmyer, The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022) 299 pp. £79.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226815770 The Science of Character sets out to refute the traditional narrative of the rise of the novel as a ‘movement of character from inside to outside, surface to…

Marc Flandreau, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: a Financial History of Victorian Britain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2016) 416 pp. $35.00 Pb, $105.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226360447 In Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange:, Marc Flandreau argues that the economic value of ‘truth’ underpins the development of anthropology as its own discipline in the nineteenth century,…