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Come buy, come buy : shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / Krista Lysack.
Author
Lysack, Krista
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2008.
Description
1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations
Availability
Available Online
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Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles
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Subject(s)
Consumption (Economics) in literature
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Consumption (Economics)
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Great Britain
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History
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19th century
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English literature
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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English literature
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19th century
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History and criticism
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Femininity in literature
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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Shopping in literature
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Shopping
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Great Britain
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History
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19th century
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Women consumers in literature
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Women consumers
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Great Britain
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History
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19th century
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Summary note
From the 1860s through the early twentieth century, Great Britain saw the rise of the department store and the institutionalization of a gendered sphere of consumption. Come Buy, Come Buy considers representations of the female shopper in British women's writing and demonstrates how women's shopping practices are materialized as forms of narrative, poetic, and cultural inscription, showing how women writers emphasize consumerism as productive of pleasure rather than the condition of seduction or loss. Krista Lysack examines works by Christina Rossetti, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot, and Michael Field, as well as the suffragist newspaper Votes for Women, in order to challenge the dominant construction of Victorian femininity as characterized by self-renunciation and the regulation of appetite. Come Buy, Come Buy considers not only literary works, but also a variety of archival sources (shopping guides, women's fashion magazines, household management guides, newspapers, and advertisements) and cultural practices (department store shopping, shoplifting and kleptomania, domestic economy, and suffragette shopkeeping). This wealth of sources reveals unexpected relationships between consumption, identity, and citizenship, as Lysack traces a genealogy of the woman shopper from dissident domestic spender to aesthetic salonière, from curious shop-gazer to political radical. --From publisher's description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
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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ISBN
9780821442920 ((electronic bk.))
0821442929 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
471133656
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Come buy, come buy [electronic resource] : shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / Krista Lysack.
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