Economic woman : demand, gender, and narrative closure in Eliot and Hardy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kreisel, Deanna K.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Economics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Knowledge > Economics. Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928 > Knowledge > Economics. Women in literature. Economics in literature.

Table of Contents:

Popular demand: surplus and stagnation in nineteenth-century political economy
'Fine clothes an' waste': utopian economy and the problem of femininity in Adam Bede
Superfluity and suction: the problem with saving in The Mill on the Floss
'All was over at last': epistemological and domestic economies in The Mayor of Casterbridge
Self-sacrifice, skillentons, and mother's mild: the internationalization of demand in Tess.