Research Catalog

Title

Come buy, come buy [electronic resource] : shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / Krista Lysack.

Author

Lysack, Krista.

Publication

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.

Details

Description

1 online resource (x, 238 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Come buy, come buy (Online)

Alternative Title

Come buy, come buy (Online)

Subject

• Consumption (Economics) in literature
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• Women consumers in literature
• Shopping in literature
• Femininity in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Women consumers > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Shopping > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Consumption (Economics) > Great Britain > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction: danger, delight, and Victorian women's shopping -- Goblin markets: women shoppers and the East in London's West End -- Lady Audley's shopping disorders -- Middlemarch and the extravagant domestic spender: managing an epic life -- To those who love them best: the erotics of connoisseurship in Michael Field's Sight and song -- Votes for women and the tactics of consumption -- Afterword: Becoming Elizabeth Dalloway: the future of shopping.

LCCN

2007052434

OCLC

ssj0000278048

Author

Lysack, Krista.

Title

Come buy, come buy [electronic resource] : shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / Krista Lysack.

Imprint

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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