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Title:

Economic women : essays on desire and dispossession in nineteenth-century British culture / edited by Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

x, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Women--Great Britain--Economic conditions--19th century.
Women in literature.
Economics in literature.
Economics in literature.
English fiction.
Women and literature.
Women as literary characters.
Women--Economic conditions.
Great Britain.
Economics in literature.
English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism.
Women / Great Britain / Economic conditions / 19th century.
Women and literature / Great Britain / History / 19th century.
Women in literature.
Englisch.
Frau (Motiv)
Frau.
Literatur.
Wirtschaft (Motiv)
Wirtschaft.
Großbritannien.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Aufsatzsammlung.

Other Authors:

Dalley, Lana L., 1976-
Rappoport, Jill.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0814293387 (cd-rom)
9780814293386 (cd-rom)
0814212360 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814212363 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)837140781

LCCN:

2013023713

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)