{"id":3391,"date":"2016-10-05T17:50:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/author\/ben-parker\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:09:49","slug":"ben-parker","status":"publish","type":"pbauthor","link":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/author\/ben-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ben Parker is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. His first book, <em>Misrecognitions: Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel<\/em>, was published by Cornell University Press in 2024. His scholarly articles on novels and novel theory have appeared in<em> English Literary History<\/em>,<em> New Literary History<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Modern Language Quarterly<\/em>,and <em>Novel<\/em>. He has also written film and music criticism for<em>\u00a0Film Quarterly<\/em>, <em>n+1<\/em>, <em>Artforum<\/em>, and <em>The Paris Review<\/em>. 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