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Autore: | Stern Rebecca |
Titolo: | Home Economics : Domestic Fraud in Victorian England / / Rebecca Stern |
Pubblicazione: | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008 |
©2008 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 207 p.) : : ill. ; |
Disciplina: | 820.9/355 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Home Economics |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910524670403321 |
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