The Afterlife of Property —— Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel

----- 财产的来世：国内安全与维多利亚时代的小说

ISBN: 9780691114675 出版年：2009 页码：160 Nunokawa, Jeff Princeton University Press

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.