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Economic Woman : Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy /

Economic Woman is the first book to address directly the links between classical political economy and gender in the novel. Examining key works by Eliot and Hardy, including The Mill on the Floss and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Kreisel investigates the meaning of two female representations: the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kreisel, Deanna K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2012
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Popular demand: surplus and stagnation in nineteenth-century political economy
  • 'Fine clothes an' waste': utopian economy and the problem of femininity in Adam Bede
  • Superfluity and suction: the problem with saving in The Mill on the Floss
  • 'All was over at last': epistemological and domestic economies in The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Self-sacrifice, skillentons, and mother's mild: the internationalization of demand in Tess.