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| Named Person: | Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; George Eliot; George Eliot |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeff Nunokawa |
| ISBN: | 069103320X 9780691033204 |
| OCLC Number: | 28631549 |
| Description: | vii, 152 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Domestic Securities: Little Dorrit and the Fictions of Property -- Ch. 3. For Your Eyes Only: Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey and Son -- Ch. 4. Daniel Deronda and the Afterlife of the Ownership -- Ch. 5. The Miser's Two Bodies: Sexual Perversity and the Flight from Capital in Silas Marner. |
| Responsibility: | Jeff Nunokawa. |
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Abstract:
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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- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism.
- Domestic relations in literature.
- Homosexuality in literature.
- Property in literature.
- Marriage in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- English fiction -- History, 1837-1900
- Romans.
- Victoriaanse tijd.
- Vrouwen.
- Bezit.
- Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Roman familial anglais -- Histoire et critique.
- Famille -- Droit dans la littérature.
- Homosexualité dans la littérature.
- Propriété dans la littérature.
- Mariage dans la littérature.
- Femmes dans la littérature.
- Sexualité dans la littérature.
- Dickens, Charles. -- Little Dorrit.
- Dickens, Charles. -- Dombey and Son.
- Eliot, George. -- Daniel Deronda.
- Eliot, George. -- Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe.
- Roman.
- Besitz (Motiv)
- Geschichte 1840-1900.
- Familie (Motiv)
- Frau (Motiv)
- Englisch.
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