The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the by Jeff Nunokawa
By Jeff Nunokawa
In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction handed on by means of the Victorian novel woman's love is the single fortune a guy can anticipate to final. Taking for his instance 4 texts, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner, Nunokawa stories the varied ways in which the Victorian novel imagines girls as estate faraway from the uncertainties of undefined. alongside the best way, he notices how the kinds of economics, gender, sexuality, race, and fiction outline each other within the Victorian novel.
If the radical figures ladies as secure estate, Nunokawa argues, the radical figures secure estate as a lady. And if the radical identifies the angel of the home, the desexualized topic of Victorian fantasies of perfect womanhood, as secure estate, it identifies a number of kinds of fiction, illicit sexualities, and overseas races with the enemy of such estate: the commodity shape. Nunokawa exhibits how those convergences of fiction, sexuality, and race with the commodity shape are a part of a scapegoat state of affairs, within which the another way ubiquitous instabilities of might be contained and expunged, clearing the way in which for safe ownership. The Afterlife of Property addresses literary and cultural concept, gender reviews, and homosexual and lesbian studies.
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