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Economic women : essays on desire and dispossession in nineteenth-century British culture
Title
Economic women : essays on desire and dispossession in nineteenth-century British culture / edited by Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport.
ISBN
9780814212363 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814212360 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814293386 (cd-rom)
0814293387 (cd-rom)
Published
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.
Physical Description
x, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 11, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introducing economic women / Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport
Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle
Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy
Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. Blumberg
Florence Nightingale's contributions to economics / Mary Poovey
The cost of everything in Middlemarch / Gordon Bigelow
Demand and desire in Dracula / Deanna K. Kreisel
"A pauper every wife is" : Lady Westmeath, money, marriage, and divorce in early nineteenth-century England / Janette Rutterford
Marriage, celibacy, or emigration? Debating the costs of family life in mid-Victorian England / Erika Rappaport
"Absolutely Miss Fairlie's own" : emasculating economics in The woman in white / Esther Godfrey
"She'd give her two ears to know" : the gossip economy in Ellen Wood's St Martin's eve / Tara MacDonald
Charlotte Riddell : novelist of "the city" / Nancy Henry
A "formidable" business : British women travelers in the colonial medical market / Narin Hassan
Afterword-and forward : economic women in their time, our time, and the future / Regenia Gagnier.
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