Economic Woman
Subtitle: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781442642492
Subjects: Eliot, george, 1819-1880; Hardy, thomas, 1840-1928; English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century; Women in literature; Economics in literature; Great britain, history, 19th century
Description: "Shows how images of feminized sexuality in novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy reflected widespread contemporary anxieties about the growth of capitalism. Economic Woman is the first book to address directly the links between classical political economy and gender in the novel. Examining key works by Eliot and Hardy, including The Mill on the Floss and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Kreisel investigates the meaning of two female representations: the 'economic woman, ' who embodies idealized sexual restraint and wise domestic management, and the degraded prostitute, characterized by sexual excess and economic turmoil."--Publisher description.