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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524900003321

Titolo

Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture / / Edited by Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-8142-7119-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RappoportJill

DalleyLana L. <1976->

Disciplina

823/.8093522

Soggetti

Economics in literature

Women in literature

Women - Great Britain - Economic conditions - 19th century

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introducing economic women / Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. Blumberg -- Florence Nightingale's contributions to economics / Mary Poovey -- The cost of everything in Middlemarch / Gordon Bigelow -- Demand and desire in Dracula / Deanna K. Kreisel -- "A pauper every wife is" : Lady Westmeath, money, marriage, and divorce in early nineteenth-century England / Janette Rutterford -- Marriage, celibacy, or emigration? Debating the costs of family life in mid-Victorian England / Erika Rappaport -- "Absolutely Miss Fairlie's own" : emasculating economics in The woman in white / Esther Godfrey -- "She'd give her two ears to know" : the gossip economy in Ellen Wood's St Martin's eve / Tara MacDonald -- Charlotte Riddell : novelist of "the city" / Nancy



Henry -- A "formidable" business : British women travelers in the colonial medical market / Narin Hassan -- Afterword-and forward : economic women in their time, our time, and the future / Regenia Gagnier.