The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace, by Sean Grass

express female trauma, especially marital trauma, is compelling. This chapter returns to The Woman in White, arguing that the abusive and unhappy marriages in the novel lend themselves to contemporary discussions of trauma and the #MeToo movement, as seen in the 2018 BBC television adaptation. Indeed, this is an important point, and a reminder that while sensation novels do depict ways in which the past haunts the present, they were also considered to be up-to-date stories about the present moment, with their depictions of proto-feminism and new technologies. The book demonstrates the continued need to reassess our assumptions about popular fiction and canon formation, implying that the work done by feminist scholars in the 1970s and 80s is far from over. Written in clear prose, and with good knowledge of both Victorian and neo-Victorian scholarship, the book presents a convincing argument for the study of the popularity and legacy of the sensation novel beyond the nineteenth century. Tara MacDonald University of Idaho