Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Models of Stability: Production and Consumption in Humphry Clinker and The Castle of Otranto; 2. Productions of Knowledge: Emma and Frankenstein; 3. The Emptied Subject of Public Knowledge: The Old Curiosity Shop; 4. Public Knowledge, Common Knowledge, and Classifications of Will: Barchester Towers and Little Dorrit; 5. Gender as Order in Public and Private: East Lynne; 6. Naturalizing Class and Gender Distinctions: The Return of the Native; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Summary
By addressing novels such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Jane Austen's Emma through the lens of the theories of Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault, Patricia McKee explores the themes of production and consumption as they relate to gender and class
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index