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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 1

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 1

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.

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1040243061

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9781040243060

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 2

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 2

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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381

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1040250297

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9781040250297

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 4

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 4

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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428

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1040243614

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9781040243619

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 3

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 3

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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1040246192

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9781040246191

The Vulgar Question of Money

Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James

By: Elsie B. Michie

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The Vulgar Question of Money

Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James

By: Elsie B. Michie

It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about changing reactions to money in British culture. It was in the novel that writers found space to articulate the anxieties surrounding money that developed along with the rise of capitalism in nineteenth-century England. Michie focuses in particular on the character of the wealthy heiress and how she, unlike her male counterpart, represents the tensions in British society between the desire for wealth and advancement and the fear that economic development would blur the traditional boundaries of social classes. Michie explores how novelists of the period captured with particular vividness England’s ambivalent emotional responses to its own financial successes and engaged questions identical to those raised by political economists and moral philosophers. Each chapter reads a novelist alongside a contemporary thinker, tracing the development of capitalism in Britain: Jane Austen and Adam Smith and the rise of commercial society, Frances Trollope and Thomas Robert Malthus and industrialism, Anthony Trollope and Walter Bagehot and the political influence of money, Margaret Oliphant and John Stuart Mill and professionalism and managerial capitalism, and Henry James and Georg Simmel and the shift of economic dominance from England to America. Even the great romantic novels of the nineteenth century cannot disentangle themselves from the vulgar question of money. Michie’s fresh reading of the marriage plot, and the choice between two women at its heart, shows it to be as much about politics and economics as it is about personal choice.

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JHU Press

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1421402327

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9781421402321

Outside the Pale

Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer

By: Elsie B. Michie

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Outside the Pale

Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer

By: Elsie B. Michie

Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture. Exploring a series of abhorrent images, Michie traces the links between the Victorian definition of femininity and other forms of cultural exclusion such as race and class distinctions.

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Cornell University Press

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1501724517

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9781501724510

Outside the Pale

Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer

By: Elsie B. Michie

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Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer

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The Vulgar Question of Money

Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James

By: Elsie B. Michie

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Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James

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Book's by Elsie B. Michie

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 1

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 1

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 2

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 2

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 4

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 4

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 3

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 3

The Vulgar Question of Money

The Vulgar Question of Money

Outside the Pale

Outside the Pale

Outside the Pale

Outside the Pale

The Vulgar Question of Money

The Vulgar Question of Money

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