The Afterlife of Property : : Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel / / Jeff Nunokawa.
In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example four texts, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot's Daniel...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO. Domestic Securities: Little Dorrit and the Fictions of Property
- CHAPTER THREE. For Your Eyes Only: Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey and Son
- CHAPTER FOUR. Daniel Deronda and the Afterlife of Ownership
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Miser's Two Bodies: Sexual Perversity and the Flight from Capital in Silas Marner
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index