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Author:
Stern, Rebecca.
Title:
Home economics : domestic fraud in Victorian England / Rebecca Stern.
Publisher:
Ohio State University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
xiii, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Fraud in literature
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.
Home economics in literature
Swindlers and swindling in literature
Capitalism in literature
Fraud in popular culture
Fraud--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Notes:
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.
ISBN:
0814210902 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814210901 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)173182393
LCCN:
2007035891
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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