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Match Girl & The Heiress

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Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

18.01.2015

Verlag

Princeton Univers. Press

Seitenzahl

480

Maße (L/B/H)

24.1/16.1/4.3 cm

Gewicht

924 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-691-15850-1

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"This is a beautifully written and researched book, one that will stand as one of the best books in modern British history for years to come. The Match Girl and the Heiress is destined to become an instant classic. There is no other book like it."--Sharon Marcus, author of Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

18.01.2015

Verlag

Princeton Univers. Press

Seitenzahl

480

Maße (L/B/H)

24.1/16.1/4.3 cm

Gewicht

924 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-691-15850-1

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  • Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE Victorian Childhoods and Two Victorian Children 21 The Education of Nellie Dowell 23 The Apprenticeship of Muriel Lester 57 Conclusions: The Challenges of Unlearning 75 CHAPTER TWO Capitalism, from Below and Down Under: The Global Traffic in Matches and Match Girls 77 The Work of the Match Girl in Victorian Culture 79 How Match Factory Women Became Match Girls 85 Match Girls' Militant: Why the Bell's Match Factory Strike of 1893/94 Failed 95 Metropolitan Match Girls Abroad: Immoral Circulations of Matches and Match Girls 104 Conclusions 130 CHAPTER THREE "Being a Christian" in Edwardian Britain 135 "God Is Love" 137 Foundational Fables, Ethical Awakening 154 God's Empire 171 From Paupers to Citizens 177 Conclusions 181 CHAPTER FOUR Body Biographies in War and Peace 184 Taking Nellie's Temperature 186 Narrating Nellie 190 "You don't look near so well really" 201 Muriel Lester's Spiritual Therapeutics 212 Bodies at War 219 Grammars of Difference, Erotics of Illness in Nellie's Letters to Muriel 226 "Why it is I don't know" 237 Conclusions: Dialects for the Heart 252 CHAPTER FIVE Love and Christian Revolution 256 Henry Lester's Gift 261 Feminisms at War 274 Reconciliation and Christian Revolution 288 "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you" 301 Telling the Truth, Becoming an Heiress 315 Conclusions 328 Afterlives 330 Manuscript Sources 353 Notes 357 Index 435