Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture / Edited by Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport.
| Other author | Rappoport, Jill. |
| Other author | Dalley, Lana L., 1976- |
| Other author | Project Muse. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) |
| Description | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available: |
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| Series | Book collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Introducing economic women / Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. Blumberg -- Florence Nightingale's contributions to economics / Mary Poovey -- The cost of everything in Middlemarch / Gordon Bigelow -- Demand and desire in Dracula / Deanna K. Kreisel -- "A pauper every wife is" : Lady Westmeath, money, marriage, and divorce in early nineteenth-century England / Janette Rutterford -- Marriage, celibacy, or emigration? Debating the costs of family life in mid-Victorian England / Erika Rappaport -- "Absolutely Miss Fairlie's own" : emasculating economics in The woman in white / Esther Godfrey -- "She'd give her two ears to know" : the gossip economy in Ellen Wood's St Martin's eve / Tara MacDonald -- Charlotte Riddell : novelist of "the city" / Nancy Henry -- A "formidable" business : British women travelers in the colonial medical market / Narin Hassan -- Afterword-and forward : economic women in their time, our time, and the future / Regenia Gagnier. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013023713 |
| ISBN | 9780814271193 |
| ISBN | 0814271197 |