Home Economics

Description:

"In this book, Rebecca Stern establishes fraud as a basic component of the Victorian popular imagination, key to its intimate, as well as corporate, systems of exchange. Working with diverse primary material, including literature, legal cases, newspaper columns, illustrations, ballads, and pamphlets, Stern argues that the climate of fraud permeated Victorian popular ideologies about social transactions. Beyond providing a history of cases and categories of domestic deceit, Home Economics illustrates the diverse means by which Victorian culture engaged with, refuted, celebrated, represented, and consumed swindling in familial and other household relationships."--Jacket.

subjects: English literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  Popular literature, history and criticism,  Fraud,  Fraud in literature,  English literature,  History and criticism,  Popular literature,  Home economics in literature,  Swindlers and swindling in literature,  Capitalism in literature,  Fraud in popular culture,  History,  Popular culture,  Home economics