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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introducing economic women / Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. Blumberg -- Florence Nightingale's contributions to economics / Mary Poovey -- The cost of everything in Middlemarch / Gordon Bigelow -- Demand and desire in Dracula / Deanna K. Kreisel -- "A pauper every wife is" : Lady Westmeath, money, marriage, and divorce in early nineteenth-century England / Janette Rutterford -- Marriage, celibacy, or emigration? Debating the costs of family life in mid-Victorian England / Erika Rappaport -- "Absolutely Miss Fairlie's own" : emasculating economics in The woman in white / Esther Godfrey -- "She'd give her two ears to know" : the gossip economy in Ellen Wood's St Martin's eve / Tara MacDonald -- Charlotte Riddell : novelist of "the city" / Nancy Henry -- A "formidable" business : British women travelers in the colonial medical market / Narin Hassan -- Afterword-and forward : economic women in their time, our time, and the future / Regenia Gagnier. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Economics in literature.
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Economics in literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Women -- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
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Women. |
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Great Britain. |
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature. |
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History. |
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books. .
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Rappoport, Jill.
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Dalley, Lana L., 1976-
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9780814271193 |
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0814271197 |
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9780814212363 cloth alkaline paper |
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0814212360 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780814293386 cd-rom |
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0814293387 cd-rom |
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