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The Afterlife of Property. Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel.
Jeff Nunokawa
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Description for The Afterlife of Property. Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel.
Paperback. Investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the fortune a man can count on to last. This work studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. It addresses literary and cultural theory, gender studies, and gay and lesbian studies. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example four texts, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner, Nunokawa studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. Along the way, he notices how the categories of economics, gender, sexuality, race, and fiction define one another in the Victorian novel. If the novel figures women ... Read more
In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example four texts, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner, Nunokawa studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. Along the way, he notices how the categories of economics, gender, sexuality, race, and fiction define one another in the Victorian novel. If the novel figures women ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691114675
SKU
V9780691114675
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About Jeff Nunokawa
Jeff Nunokawa is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of "Tame Passions of Wilde" (Princeton).
Reviews for The Afterlife of Property. Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel.
"Jeff Nunokawa enters the familiar territory of Victorian fiction where capital and romance coexist and illuminates the subject in ways that are aften striking and valuable... A provocative exploration."
Victorian Review "Brilliant... Nunokawa's book ... will inspire anyone interested in the place of property in Victorian culture."
John Kucich, Victorian Studies "The achievements of this elegant book are clear... [It provides] finely ... Read more
Victorian Review "Brilliant... Nunokawa's book ... will inspire anyone interested in the place of property in Victorian culture."
John Kucich, Victorian Studies "The achievements of this elegant book are clear... [It provides] finely ... Read more