The afterlife of property domestic security and the Victorian novel
In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example four texts, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot's Daniel...
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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Princeton, NJ u.a.
Princeton Univ. Press
1994
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| Schlagworte: |
Eliot, George
> Dickens, Charles
> Geschichte 1800-1900
> Geschichte 1840-1900
> Bezit
> Famille - Droit dans la littérature
> Femmes dans la littérature
> Homosexualité dans la littérature
> Mariage dans la littérature
> Propriété dans la littérature
> Roman anglais - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique
> Roman familial anglais - Histoire et critique
> Romans
> Sexualité dans la littérature
> Victoriaanse tijd
> Vrouwen
> Frau
> Domestic fiction, English
> History and criticism
> Domestic relations in literature
> English fiction
> Homosexuality in literature
> Marriage in literature
> Property in literature
> Sex in literature
> Women in literature
> Roman
> Englisch
> Eigentum
> Familie
> Besitz
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example four texts, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner, Nunokawa studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. Along the way, he notices how the categories of economics, gender, sexuality, race, and fiction define one another in the Victorian novel If the novel figures women as safe property, Nunokawa argues, the novel figures safe property as a woman. And if the novel identifies the angel of the house, the desexualized subject of Victorian fantasies of ideal womanhood, as safe property, it identifies various types of fiction, illicit sexualities, and foreign races with the enemy of such property: the commodity form. Nunokawa shows how these convergences of fiction, sexuality, and race with the commodity form are part of a scapegoat scenario, in which the otherwise ubiquitous instabilities of the marketplace can be contained and expunged, clearing the way for secure possession. The Afterlife of Property addresses literary and cultural theory, gender studies, and gay and lesbian studies |
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| Beschreibung: | VII, 152 S. |
| ISBN: | 069103320X 0-691-03320-X |