Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature by Meg Dobbins 2022 VG+

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Pages
204
Publication Date
2022-12-06
Book Title
Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature
ISBN
9780814214862
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Publisher
Ohio State University Press
ISBN-10
081421486X
ISBN-13
9780814214862
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26057260078

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
204 Pages
Publication Name
Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature
Language
English
Subject
Economic History, Modern / 19th Century, LGBT, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Business & Economics
Author
Meg Dobbins
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2022-029501
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20220826
Reviews
"Dobbins's book helps reveal a newer view of nineteenth-century fiction that is hardly corseted by conventional sexual and economic narratives. Indeed, I find it difficult to fault this fascinating book." --Brenda McKay, George Eliot Review, "Dobbins foregrounds the eccentric, the antinormative, and the messy elements of Victorian economic subjects and their practices, all the while achieving an excellent balance of theoretical discussion, historical work, and smart close readings of literary texts. She engages with a diversity of contemporary scholarship with authority and verve." --Aeron Hunt, author of Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture
Dewey Decimal
820.9/353
Table Of Content
Introduction Queer Accounts Chapter 1 Dickensian Queer Street Chapter 2 Jane Eyre's Purse Chapter 3 Black Debt and Social Capital in The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Chapter 4 The Progressive State and Queer Family Values: George Eliot's Widows, Misers, and Disobedient Daughters Coda Oscar Wilde and Sebastian Melmoth
Synopsis
Examines how precarious economic figures in texts by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, and more queered Victorian socioeconomic norms., In nineteenth-century Britain, the word queer was associated not only with same-sex desire but also with irregular forms of financial association and trust. Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature centers this forgotten facet of queer by recovering an alternative economic narrative of the Victorian period: one of economic excess, waste, debt, and downward mobility. Drawing on insights from intersectional queer theory and economic literary criticism, as well as astute readings of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde, Meg Dobbins argues that eccentric economic figures like Black entrepreneurs, childless widows, and working-class benefactors represent sites of queerness--forms of economic desire, identity, strategy, or relation that become sites of friction within the developing social and institutional norms of nineteenth-century capitalism. Dobbins argues that Victorian authors document the everyday economic struggles of those cast aside, left behind, and fundamentally transfigured by modern capitalism. Rather than rejecting capitalist ideology, these authors queer socioeconomic norms, shedding light on the provocative ways Victorians made capitalism livable, and even pleasurable. In this way, Queer Economic Dissonance rearticulates the link between erotic and economic forms of dissonance in capitalist society.
LC Classification Number
PR468.E36D63 2022

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