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Book SynopsisInvestigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the fortune a man can count on to last. This work studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. It addresses literary and cultural theory, gender studies, and gay and lesbian studies.
Trade Review"Jeff Nunokawa enters the familiar territory of Victorian fiction where capital and romance coexist and illuminates the subject in ways that are aften striking and valuable... A provocative exploration."--Victorian Review "Brilliant... Nunokawa's book ... will inspire anyone interested in the place of property in Victorian culture."--John Kucich, Victorian Studies "The achievements of this elegant book are clear... [It provides] finely nuanced and strikingly innovative readings of four canonical novels."--Catherine Gallagher, Nineteenth-Century Literature "[An] illuminating reading ... of social and domestic relations in the nineteenth century."--Natalie McKnight, Dickens Quarterly
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Ch. 1 Introduction p.3 Ch. 2 Domestic Securities: Little Dorrit and the Fictions of Property p.19 Ch. 3 For Your Eyes Only: Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey and Son p.40 Ch. 4 Daniel Deronda and the Afterlife of the Ownership p.77 Ch. 5 The Miser's Two Bodies: Sexual Perversity and the Flight from Capital in Silas Marner p.100 Afterword p.122 Notes p.125 Works Cited p.143 Index p.150
