Queer economic dissonance and Victorian literature /

"Draws on queer theory and economic literary criticism to examine how precarious economic figures in texts by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, and more queered Victorian socioeconomic norms"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dobbins, Meg, 1986- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Economics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Economics in literature. Capitalism in literature. Queer theory. Economics and literature. English literature. Great Britain. 1800-1899 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Queer accounts
Dickensian Queer Street
Jane Eyre's purse
Black debt and social capital in The wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands
The progressive state and queer family values: George Eliot's widows, misers, and disobedient daughters
Coda: Oscar Wilde and Sebastian Melmoth.