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Titre(s) : Economic women [Texte imprimé] : essays on desire and dispossession in nineteenth-century British culture / edited by Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport
Publication : Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013
Description matérielle : x-238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British
Culture, edited by Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport, showcases the wide-ranging economic
activities and relationships of real and fictional women in nineteenth-century British
culture. This volume{u2019}s essays chronicle the triumphs and setbacks of women who
developed, described, contested, and exploited new approaches to economic thought
and action. In their various roles as domestic employees, activists fighting for free
trade, theorists developing statistical models, and individuals considering the cost
of marriage and its dissolution, the women discussed here were givers and takers,
producers and consumers. Bringing together leading and emerging voices in the field,
this collection builds on the wealth of interdisciplinary economic criticism published
in the last twenty years, but it also challenges traditional understandings of economic
subjectivity by emphasizing both private and public records and refusing to identify
a single female corollary to Economic Man. The scholars presented here recover game-changing
stories of women{u2019}s economic engagement from diaries, letters, ledgers, fiction,
periodicals, and travel writing to reveal a nuanced portrait of Economic Women. Offering
new readings of works by George Eliot, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Charlotte Riddell,
and Ellen Wood, and addressing political economy, consumerism, and business developments
alongside the ethics of exchange and family finances, Economic Women tells a story
of ambivalence as well as achievement, failure as well as forward motion
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Dalley, Lana L. (1976-....). Éditeur scientifique
Rappoport, Jill. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Roman anglais -- 19e siècle
Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Économie politique -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780814212363 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0814212360 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780814293386 (cd-rom). - ISBN 0814293387 (cd-rom)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43876639v
Notice n° :
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