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Author Stern, Rebecca

Title Home economics : domestic fraud in Victorian England / Rebecca Stern
Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2008

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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
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Subject Fraud in literature.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
Home economics in literature.
Swindlers and swindling in literature.
Capitalism in literature.
Fraud in popular culture.
Fraud -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Capitalism in literature.
English literature.
Fraud.
Fraud in literature.
Fraud in popular culture.
Home economics in literature.
Popular literature.
Swindlers and swindling in literature.
Literatur
Betrug Motiv
Hauswirtschaft
Betrug
Betrug -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur.
Hauswirtschaft -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur.
Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Betrug.
Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Hauswirtschaft.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814272008
0814272002