Home Economics : Domestic Fraud in Victorian England / / Rebecca Stern

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524670403321
• Autore: Stern Rebecca
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 207 p.) : : ill.
• Disciplina: 820.9/355
• Soggetti: Fraud - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Fraud in popular culture; Capitalism in literature; Swindlers and swindling in literature; Home economics in literature; Popular literature - Great Britain - History and criticism; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Fraud in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction. Fraud at home : the private life of capitalism -- Genre trouble : the Tichborne claimant, popular narrative, and the dangerous pleasures of domestic fraud -- Brinks jobs : servants, thresholds, and portable property -- Dangerous provisions: Victorian food fraud -- Speculating on marriage : fraud, narrative, and the business of Victorian wedlock -- Conclusion. Child rearing, time bargains, and the modern life of fraud.