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Home economics : domestic fraud in Victorian England
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Title
Home economics : domestic fraud in Victorian England / Rebecca Stern.
ISBN
9780814210901 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814210902 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xiii, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 16, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.
Contents
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.
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