Economic Woman

Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy

AvDeanna K. Kreisel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

The ways in which women are portrayed in Victorian novels can provide important insights into how people of the day thought about political economy, and vice versa. In Economic Woman, Deanna K. Kreisel innovatively shows how images of feminized sexuality in novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy reflected widespread contemporary anxieties about the growth of capitalism. Economic Woman is the first book to address directly the links between classical political economy and gender in the novel. Examining key works by Eliot and Hardy, including The Mill on the Floss and Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Kreisel investigates the meaning of two female representations: the ‘economic woman,’ who embodies idealized sexual restraint and wise domestic management, and the degraded prostitute, characterized by sexual excess and economic turmoil. Kreisel effectively integrates economic thought with literary analysis to contribute to an ongoing and lively scholarly discussion.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-01-01
Mått:156 x 237 x 26 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442642492

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Deanna K. Kreisel is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.

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‘Exemplary first book… One of the greatest strengths is its exposition of how political economy developed in nineteenth-century Britain.’ - Robyn Warhol (Nineteenth Century Literature, vol 67:02:2012) ‘Kreisel’s detailed analysis of gender and political economy is intriguing and insightful. Most impressively, Kreisel’s discussion weaves together ideas about history, Economics and narrative closure in engaging and original ways.’ - Samantha Briggs (Literature and History vol 23:01:2014)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Demand; or, the Cephalopod1 Popular Demand: Surplus and Stagnation in Nineteenth-Century Political Economy 2 “Fine Clothes an' Waste”: Utopian Economy and the Problem of Femininity in Adam Bede3 Superfluity and Suction: The Problem with Saving in The Mill on the Floss 4 “All Was Over at Last”: Epistemological and Domestic Economies in The Mayor of Casterbridge 5 Self-Sacrifice, Skillentons, and Mother's Milk: The Internalization of Demand in TessWorks CitedIndex