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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stern, Rebecca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Englische Literatur > Motiv > Hauswirtschaft.
Englische Literatur > Motiv > Betrug.
Hauswirtschaft > Motiv > Englische Literatur.
Betrug > Motiv > Englische Literatur.
Betrug
Hauswirtschaft
Betrug > Motiv
Literatur
Swindlers and swindling in literature.
Popular literature.
Home economics in literature.
Fraud in popular culture.
Fraud in literature.
Fraud.
English literature.
Capitalism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Fraude > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Capitalisme dans la litterature.
Économie domestique dans la litterature.
Paralitterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Fraude dans la litterature.
Fraud > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Popular literature > Great Britain > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Englisch.
Grossbritannien
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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
Physical Description:1 online resource (207 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780814272008
Access:Open Access

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