Home Economics : Domestic Fraud in Victorian England /
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2008.
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Table des matières:
- 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.