Come buy, come buy [electronic resource] : shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / Krista Lysack.
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TextPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.Description: x, 238 p. : illSubject(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 century
- 820.9/3553 22
- PR468.C68 L97 2008eb
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.
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