Home Economics : Domestic Fraud in Victorian England /

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Autore principale: Stern, Rebecca
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sommario:
  • 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.