Home Economics : Domestic Fraud in Victorian England / / Rebecca Stern
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| Autore: |
Stern Rebecca
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| Titolo: |
Home Economics : Domestic Fraud in Victorian England / / Rebecca Stern
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| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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