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Come buy, come buy : shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing
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ISBN: 9780821418116 0821418114 9780821418109 0821418106 0821442929 9780821442920 Year: 2008 Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press,

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From the 1860's through the early twentieth century, Great Britain saw the rise of the department store and the institutionalization of a gendered sphere of consumption. Come Buy, Come Buy considers representations of the female shopper in British women's writing and demonstrates how women's shopping practices are materialized as forms of narrative, poetic, and cultural inscription, showing how women writers emphasize consumerism as productive of pleasure rather than the condition of seduction or loss. Krista Lysack examines works by Christina Rossetti, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot,

The character of credit : personal debt in English culture, 1740-1914
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ISBN: 0521823420 9780521823425 Year: 2003 Volume: 1 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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