Home economics : domestic fraud in Victorian England /
Stern, Rebecca.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.
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.
Fraud in literature.
English literature
Popular literature
Home economics in literature.
Swindlers and swindling in literature.
Capitalism in literature.
Fraud in popular culture.
Fraud