Economic Woman : : Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy / / Deanna K. Kreisel.
The ways in which women are portrayed in Victorian novels can provide important insights into how people of the day thought about political economy, and vice versa. In Economic Woman, Deanna K. Kreisel innovatively shows how images of feminized sexuality in novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy re...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 1 Figure |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Demand; or, the Cephalopod
- 1. Popular Demand: Surplus and Stagnation in Nineteenth-Century Political Economy
- 2. 'Fine Clothes an' Waste': Utopian Economy and the Problem of Femininity in Adam Bede
- 3. Superfluity and Suction: The Problem with Saving in The Mill on the Floss
- 4. 'All Was Over at Last': Epistemological and Domestic Economies in The Mayor of Casterbridge
- 5. Self-Sacrifice, Skillentons, and Mother's Milk: The Internalization of Demand in Tess
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index