The afterlife of property : domestic security and the Victorian novel / Jeff Nunokawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nunokawa, Jeff, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, English.

Domestic relations in literature.

Homosexuality in literature.

Property in literature.

Marriage in literature.

Women in literature.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 152 pages

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2003.

Summary:

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, he studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. Along the way, Nunokawa discusses how the categories of economics, sexuality, gender, race, and fiction define one another in the Victorian novel.

Contents:

Domestic securities: Little Dorrit and the fictions of property

For your eyes only: private property and the Oriental body in Dombey and son

Daniel Deronda and the afterlife of ownership

The miser's two bodies: sexual perversity and the flight from capital in Silas Marner.

Notes:

Originally published: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691114676

9780691114675

OCLC:

51963779