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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
Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Economics in literature.
Women in literature.
Women -- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Economics in literature
English fiction
Women and literature
Women -- Economic conditions
Women in literature
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Rappoport, Jill
Dalley, Lana L., 1976-
ISBN 9780814271193
0814271197