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Home economics [electronic resource] : domestic fraud in Victorian England / Rebecca Stern

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Stern, Rebecca
Published
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2008.
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xiii, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents
Introduction. Fraud at home : the private life of capitalism -- Genre trouble : the Tichborne claimant, popular narrative, and the dangerous pleasures of domestic fraud -- Brinks jobs : servants, thresholds, and portable property -- Dangerous provisions: Victorian food fraud -- Speculating on marriage : fraud, narrative, and the business of Victorian wedlock -- Conclusion. Child rearing, time bargains, and the modern life of fraud.
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ISBN
9780814210901 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814210902 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.
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