Come buy, come buy
Subtitle: shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing
By: Krista Lysack.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780821418109; 9780821418116
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: danger, delight, and Victorian women's shopping; title: Goblin markets: women shoppers and the East in London's West End; title: Lady Audley's shopping disorders; title: Middlemarch and the extravagant domestic spender: managing an epic life; title: To those who love them best: the erotics of connoisseurship in Michael Field's Sight and song; title: Votes for women and the tactics of consumption; title: Afterword: Becoming Elizabeth Dalloway: the future of shopping.