{"product_id":"9781400824632","title":"The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Afterlife of Property,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLittle Dorrit\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDombey and Son,\u003c\/i\u003e and George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSilas Marner,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIf 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 \u003ci\u003eAfterlife of Property\u003c\/i\u003e addresses literary and cultural theory, gender studies, and gay and lesbian studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123909279984,"sku":"9781400824632","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400824632_p0.jpg?v=1769894687","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400824632","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}