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Home Economics : Domestic Fraud in Victorian England /

"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 pamp...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Stern, Rebecca
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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
Description matérielle:1 online resource (207 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780814272008
Accès:Open Access