Lysack, Krista.

Come buy, come buy shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / [electronic resource] : Krista Lysack. - Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008. - x, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index.

Introduction: danger, delight, and Victorian women's shopping -- Goblin markets: women shoppers and the East in London's West End -- Lady Audley's shopping disorders -- Middlemarch and the extravagant domestic spender: managing an epic life -- To those who love them best: the erotics of connoisseurship in Michael Field's Sight and song -- Votes for women and the tactics of consumption -- Afterword: Becoming Elizabeth Dalloway: the future of shopping.


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2009.
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Consumption (Economics) in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women consumers in literature.
Shopping in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Women consumers--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Shopping--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Consumption (Economics)--History--Great Britain--19th century.


Electronic books.

PR468.C68 / L97 2008eb

820.9/3553