Contents |
Introduction: Queer accounts -- Dickensian Queer Street -- Jane Eyre's purse -- Black debt and social capital in The wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands -- The progressive state and queer family values: George Eliot's widows, misers, and disobedient daughters -- Coda: Oscar Wilde and Sebastian Melmoth. |
Abstract |
"Draws on queer theory and economic literary criticism to examine how precarious economic figures in texts by Charles Dickens, Charlotte BrontĖue, Mary Seacole, and more queered Victorian socioeconomic norms"-- Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Genre/form | History. |
LCCN | 2022029501 |
ISBN | 9780814214862 |
ISBN | 081421486X hardcover |
ISBN | electronic book |
ISBN | electronic book |