Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages) : illustrations |
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 |
Summary |
"In this book, Rebecca Stern establishes fraud as a basic component of the Victorian popular imagination, key to its intimate, as well as corporate, systems of exchange. Working with diverse primary material, including literature, legal cases, newspaper columns, illustrations, ballads, and pamphlets, Stern argues that the climate of fraud permeated Victorian popular ideologies about social transactions. Beyond providing a history of cases and categories of domestic deceit, Home Economics illustrates the diverse means by which Victorian culture engaged with, refuted, celebrated, represented, and consumed swindling in familial and other household relationships."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Fraud in literature.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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Home economics in literature.
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Swindlers and swindling in literature.
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Capitalism in literature.
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Fraud in popular culture.
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Fraud -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Capitalism in literature.
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English literature.
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Fraud.
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Fraud in literature.
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Fraud in popular culture.
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Home economics in literature.
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Popular literature.
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Swindlers and swindling in literature.
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Literatur
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Betrug Motiv
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Hauswirtschaft
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Betrug
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Betrug -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur.
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Hauswirtschaft -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur.
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Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Betrug.
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Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Hauswirtschaft.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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Englisch.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780814272008 |
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0814272002 |
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