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Come buy, come buy : shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing
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- Creator
- Krista Lysack
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0821418106, 0821418114, 9780821418109, 9780821418116, 9780821442920, 0821442929
- OCLC
- ocn471133656, ocn187548865
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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
Subjects
- 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.