Economic Women Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse Content Provider (content provider)
Otros Autores: Rappoport, Jill (-), Dalley, Lana L., 1976-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : Ohio State University Press 2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.