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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778212303321

Autore

Lysack Krista

Titolo

Come buy, come buy [[electronic resource] ] : shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / / Krista Lysack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8214-4292-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/3553

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) in literature

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Women consumers in literature

Shopping in literature

Femininity in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Women consumers - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Shopping - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Consumption (Economics) - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: danger, delight, and Victorian women's shopping -- Goblin markets: women shoppers and the East in London's West End -- Lady Audley's shopping disorders -- Middlemarch and the extravagant domestic spender: managing an epic life -- To those who love them best: the erotics of connoisseurship in Michael Field's Sight and song -- Votes for women and the tactics of consumption -- Afterword: Becoming Elizabeth Dalloway: the future of shopping.

Sommario/riassunto

From the 1860's through the early twentieth century, Great Britain saw the rise of the department store and the institutionalization of a gendered sphere of consumption. Come Buy, Come Buy considers representations of the female shopper in British women's writing and demonstrates how women's shopping practices are materialized as forms of narrative, poetic, and cultural inscription, showing how



women writers emphasize consumerism as productive of pleasure rather than the condition of seduction or loss. Krista Lysack examines works by Christina Rossetti, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot,