This study investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for its example four texts, Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit" and "Dombey and Son", and George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" and "Silas Marner", it studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. Along the way, it relates how the categories of economics, gender, sexuality, race and fiction define one another in the Victorian novel.
- ISBN10 1282767186
- ISBN13 9781282767188
- Publish Date 1 January 2009 (first published 10 April 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 160
- Language English