Home economics : domestic fraud in Victorian England

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Label

Home economics : domestic fraud in Victorian England

Title remainder

domestic fraud in Victorian England

Statement of responsibility

Rebecca Stern

Creator

• Stern, Rebecca

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History
• Fraud in popular culture
• Swindlers and swindling in literature
• Fraud in literature
• Fraud -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Capitalism in literature
• Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Home economics in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

Language

eng

Summary

"In this book, Rebecca Stern establishes fraud as a basic component of the Victorian popular imagination, key to its intimate, as well as corporate, systems of exchange. Working with diverse primary material, including literature, legal cases, newspaper columns, illustrations, ballads, and pamphlets, Stern argues that the climate of fraud permeated Victorian popular ideologies about social transactions. Beyond providing a history of cases and categories of domestic deceit, Home Economics illustrates the diverse means by which Victorian culture engaged with, refuted, celebrated, represented, and consumed swindling in familial and other household relationships."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

820.9/355

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR468.F72

LC item number

S74 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography