Afterlife of Property
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Commodity fetishism
Coventry Patmore
Daniel Deronda
Death drive
Deed
Disenchantment
Dombey and Son
Edward William Lane
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Equanimity
Eric Hobsbawm
Exhibitionism
Fabulation
Fee tail
George Eliot
Georges Bataille
Household Gods
Impose
Individualism
Insurance
Jean Baudrillard
John Ruskin
Judith Butler
Labor theory of value
Little Dorrit
Marshalsea
Metonymy
Miser
Mortal coil
Mr.
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Narrative
Noble savage
One-Dimensional Man
Our Mutual Friend
Ownership
Ownership (psychology)
Paternalism
Personal property
Phrenology
Postmodernism
Prerogative
Primogeniture
Private property
Property
Residence
Right to property
Sanford Levinson
Self-abasement
Self-love
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Product details
- ISBN 9780691114675
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa 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 his example four texts, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner, Nunokawa studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. Along the way, he notices how the categories of economics, gender, sexuality, race, and fiction define one another in the Victorian novel. If the novel figures women as safe property, Nunokawa argues, the novel figures safe property as a woman. And if the novel identifies the angel of the house, the desexualized subject of Victorian fantasies of ideal womanhood, as safe property, it identifies various types of fiction, illicit sexualities, and foreign races with the enemy of such property: the commodity form.
Nunokawa shows how these convergences of fiction, sexuality, and race with the commodity form are part of a scapegoat scenario, in which the otherwise ubiquitous instabilities of the marketplace can be contained and expunged, clearing the way for secure possession. The Afterlife of Property addresses literary and cultural theory, gender studies, and gay and lesbian studies.
Jeff Nunokawa is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of "Tame Passions of Wilde" (Princeton).
