Home economics: domestic fraud in Victorian England

"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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1. Verfasser: Stern, Rebecca (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Columbus Ohio State Univ Press 2008
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Zusammenfassung:"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."--Book jacket.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index
Introduction. Fraud at home : the private life of capitalism -- Genre trouble : the Tichborne claimant, popular narrative, and the dangerous pleasures of domestic fraud -- Brinks jobs : servants, thresholds, and portable property -- Dangerous provisions: Victorian food fraud -- Speculating on marriage : fraud, narrative, and the business of Victorian wedlock -- Conclusion. Child rearing, time bargains, and the modern life of fraud
Beschreibung:XIII, 207 S. Ill. 24 cm

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