Come buy, come buy [electronic resource] : shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / Krista Lysack.
By: Lysack, Krista.
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BookPublisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008Description: x, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) in literature | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Women consumers in literature | Shopping in literature | Femininity in literature | Identity (Psychology) in literature | Women consumers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Shopping -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Consumption (Economics) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 820.9/3553 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index.
Introduction: danger, delight, and Victorian women's shopping -- Goblin markets: women shoppers and the East in London's West End -- Lady Audley's shopping disorders -- Middlemarch and the extravagant domestic spender: managing an epic life -- To those who love them best: the erotics of connoisseurship in Michael Field's Sight and song -- Votes for women and the tactics of consumption -- Afterword: Becoming Elizabeth Dalloway: the future of shopping.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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