Rex Ferguson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham. Melissa M. Littlefield is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.James Purdon is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of St Andrews.

• IntroductionRex Ferguson, Melissa M. Littlefield, and James PardonPart 1: Genres of Identification1. Charming Faces and the Problem of IdentificationMatt Houlbrook2. Identity NoirJames Pardon3. “The Ghosts of Individual Peculiarities”: Murder and Interpretation in DickensAndrew Mangham4. “A Puzzle of Character”: Francis Iles and Narratives of Criminality in the 1930sVictoria StewartPart 2: The Body Captured5. The Art of Identification: The Skeleton and Human IdentityRebecca Gowland and Tim Thompson6. Becoming More Biological: Ruth Ozeki and the Postgenomic Ethnoracial NovelPatricia E. Chu7. Identification Made Visible: Photographic Evidence and Russell WilliamsJonathan FinnPart 3: Surveillant Technologies8. The Face in the Biometric PassportLiv Hausken9. The Bourne IdentificationRex Ferguson10. Identification and the “Intelligent City”Dorothy Butchard11. Jennifer Egan and the DatabaseRob LedererContributorsIndex

“While there is now a growing literature on identification, there is no volume, as far as I know, so firmly rooted in literary studies, as compared to historical approaches. The Art of Identification makes a significant, original, and novel contribution to the literature.”—Simon Cole, author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification

Rex Ferguson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham. Melissa M. Littlefield is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.James Purdon is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of St Andrews.

• IntroductionRex Ferguson, Melissa M. Littlefield, and James PardonPart 1: Genres of Identification1. Charming Faces and the Problem of IdentificationMatt Houlbrook2. Identity NoirJames Pardon3. “The Ghosts of Individual Peculiarities”: Murder and Interpretation in DickensAndrew Mangham4. “A Puzzle of Character”: Francis Iles and Narratives of Criminality in the 1930sVictoria StewartPart 2: The Body Captured5. The Art of Identification: The Skeleton and Human IdentityRebecca Gowland and Tim Thompson6. Becoming More Biological: Ruth Ozeki and the Postgenomic Ethnoracial NovelPatricia E. Chu7. Identification Made Visible: Photographic Evidence and Russell WilliamsJonathan FinnPart 3: Surveillant Technologies8. The Face in the Biometric PassportLiv Hausken9. The Bourne IdentificationRex Ferguson10. Identification and the “Intelligent City”Dorothy Butchard11. Jennifer Egan and the DatabaseRob LedererContributorsIndex

“While there is now a growing literature on identification, there is no volume, as far as I know, so firmly rooted in literary studies, as compared to historical approaches. The Art of Identification makes a significant, original, and novel contribution to the literature.”—Simon Cole, author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification

Rex Ferguson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham. Melissa M. Littlefield is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.James Purdon is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of St Andrews.

• IntroductionRex Ferguson, Melissa M. Littlefield, and James PardonPart 1: Genres of Identification1. Charming Faces and the Problem of IdentificationMatt Houlbrook2. Identity NoirJames Pardon3. “The Ghosts of Individual Peculiarities”: Murder and Interpretation in DickensAndrew Mangham4. “A Puzzle of Character”: Francis Iles and Narratives of Criminality in the 1930sVictoria StewartPart 2: The Body Captured5. The Art of Identification: The Skeleton and Human IdentityRebecca Gowland and Tim Thompson6. Becoming More Biological: Ruth Ozeki and the Postgenomic Ethnoracial NovelPatricia E. Chu7. Identification Made Visible: Photographic Evidence and Russell WilliamsJonathan FinnPart 3: Surveillant Technologies8. The Face in the Biometric PassportLiv Hausken9. The Bourne IdentificationRex Ferguson10. Identification and the “Intelligent City”Dorothy Butchard11. Jennifer Egan and the DatabaseRob LedererContributorsIndex

“While there is now a growing literature on identification, there is no volume, as far as I know, so firmly rooted in literary studies, as compared to historical approaches. The Art of Identification makes a significant, original, and novel contribution to the literature.”—Simon Cole, author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification