{"product_id":"queer-economic-dissonance-and-victorian-meg-dobbins-9780814258552","title":"Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature","description":"In nineteenth-century Britain, the word \u003ci\u003equeer\u003c\/i\u003e was associated not only with same-sex desire but also with irregular forms of financial association and trust. \u003ci\u003eQueer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature \u003c\/i\u003ecenters this forgotten facet of \u003ci\u003equeer\u003c\/i\u003e by recovering an alternative economic narrative of the Victorian period: one of economic excess, waste, debt, and downward mobility. Drawing on insights from intersectional queer theory and economic literary criticism, as well as astute readings of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde, Meg Dobbins argues that eccentric economic figures like Black entrepreneurs, childless widows, and working-class benefactors represent sites of queerness--forms of economic desire, identity, strategy, or relation that become sites of friction within the developing social and institutional norms of nineteenth-century capitalism. Dobbins argues that Victorian authors document the everyday economic struggles of those cast aside, left behind, and fundamentally transfigured by modern capitalism. Rather than rejecting capitalist ideology, these authors queer socioeconomic norms, shedding light on the provocative ways Victorians made capitalism livable, and even pleasurable. In this way, \u003ci\u003eQueer Economic Dissonance\u003c\/i\u003e rearticulates the link between erotic and economic forms of dissonance in capitalist society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meg Dobbins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814258557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814258552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Meg Dobbins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46173253107967,"sku":"9780814258552","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92c8dda4-0744-49a5-a071-ba7c34e8f0cf.jpg?v=1727180432","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queer-economic-dissonance-and-victorian-meg-dobbins-9780814258552","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}