The Afterlife of Property [Hardcover]

Jeff Numokawa (Author), Jeff Nunokawa (Author)

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Publication Date: March 21, 1994

This study investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for its example four texts, Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit" and "Dombey and Son", and George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" and "Silas Marner", it studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. Along the way, it relates how the categories of economics, gender, sexuality, race and fiction define one another in the Victorian novel.

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[An] illuminating reading . . . of social and domestic relations in the nineteenth century.

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Jeff Nunokawa is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of "Tame Passions of Wilde" (Princeton). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press (March 21, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 069103320X
ISBN-13: 978-0691033204
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
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31 books cite this book:

The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment. by Amanda Anderson on page 71, page 73, and Back Matter
Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Elaine Freedgood in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England by Richard Dellamora in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Monica Feinberg Cohen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment by Martin Harries on page 54, and Back Matter

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