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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.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 238 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780821418109 (cl : alk. paper)
0821418106 (cl : alk. paper)
9780821418116 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0821418114 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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