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Home economics : domestic fraud in Victorian England
- Title
- Home economics : domestic fraud in Victorian England / Rebecca Stern.
- Author
- Stern, Rebecca.
- Publication
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 207 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-4902
- ISBN
- 9780814210901 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814210902 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007035891
- OCLC
- 173182393
- Author
- Stern, Rebecca.
- Title
- Home economics : domestic fraud in Victorian England / Rebecca Stern.
- Imprint
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-4902