Home Economics
Subtitle: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: May 8, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780814210901
Subjects: History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Great Britain - General; General
Description: "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.