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



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Autore: Lysack Krista Visualizza persona
Titolo: Come buy, come buy : shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / / Krista Lysack Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/3553
Soggetto topico: 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
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,
Titolo autorizzato: Come buy, come buy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8214-4292-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826259503321
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