LEADER 04550nam 2200901 a 450 001 9910817096603321 005 20221213232543.0 010 $a1-4008-0583-X 010 $a1-4008-0582-1 010 $a9786612767180 010 $a1-4008-2463-X 010 $a1-282-76718-6 010 $a1-4008-1284-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824632 035 $a(CKB)111056486502464 035 $a(EBL)617275 035 $a(OCoLC)705526969 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000100102 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11981586 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100102 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10016798 035 $a(PQKB)10546687 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431839 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11291224 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431839 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10477156 035 $a(PQKB)11783842 035 $a(OCoLC)51494026 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35947 035 $a(DE-B1597)446063 035 $a(OCoLC)979834594 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824632 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617275 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031925 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276718 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617275 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486502464 100 $a19930721d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe afterlife of property $edomestic security and the Victorian novel /$fJeff Nunokawa 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (161 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-11467-6 311 $a0-691-03320-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index. 327 $tCHAPTER ONE. Introduction --$tCHAPTER TWO. Domestic Securities: Little Dorrit and the Fictions of Property --$tCHAPTER THREE. For Your Eyes Only: Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey and Son --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Daniel Deronda and the Afterlife of Ownership --$tCHAPTER FIVE. The Miser's Two Bodies: Sexual Perversity and the Flight from Capital in Silas Marner --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aIn The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example four texts, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner, Nunokawa studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. Along the way, he notices how the categories of economics, gender, sexuality, race, and fiction define one another in the Victorian novel. If the novel figures women as safe property, Nunokawa argues, the novel figures safe property as a woman. And if the novel identifies the angel of the house, the desexualized subject of Victorian fantasies of ideal womanhood, as safe property, it identifies various types of fiction, illicit sexualities, and foreign races with the enemy of such property: the commodity form. Nunokawa shows how these convergences of fiction, sexuality, and race with the commodity form are part of a scapegoat scenario, in which the otherwise ubiquitous instabilities of the marketplace can be contained and expunged, clearing the way for secure possession. The Afterlife of Property addresses literary and cultural theory, gender studies, and gay and lesbian studies. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDomestic fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDomestic relations in literature 606 $aHomosexuality in literature 606 $aProperty in literature 606 $aMarriage in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aSex in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDomestic fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDomestic relations in literature. 615 0$aHomosexuality in literature. 615 0$aProperty in literature. 615 0$aMarriage in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aSex in literature. 676 $a828/.8 700 $aNunokawa$b Jeff$f1958-$0758312 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817096603321 996 $aThe afterlife of property$93951364 997 $aUNINA