{"product_id":"come-buy-come-buy-shopping-and-the-culture-of-consumption-in-victorian-womens-writing-paperback","title":"Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women's Writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKrista Lysack\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1860s through the early twentieth century, Great Britain saw the rise of the department store and the institutionalization of a gendered sphere of consumption. \u003ci\u003eCome Buy, Come Buy\u003c\/i\u003e considers representations of the female shopper in British women's writing and demonstrates how women's shopping practices are materialized as forms of narrative, poetic, and cultural inscription, showing how women writers emphasize consumerism as productive of pleasure rather than the condition of seduction or loss. Krista Lysack examines works by Christina Rossetti, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot, and Michael Field, as well as the suffragette newspaper Votes for Women, in order to challenge the dominant construction of Victorian femininity as characterized by self-renunciation and the regulation of appetite.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCome Buy, Come Buy\u003c\/i\u003e considers not only literary works, but also a variety of archival sources (shopping guides, women's fashion magazines, household management guides, newspapers, and advertisements) and cultural practices (department store shopping, shoplifting and kleptomania, domestic economy, and suffragette shopkeeping). With this wealth of sources, Lysack traces a genealogy of the woman shopper from dissident domestic spender to aesthetic connoisseur, from curious shop-gazer to political radical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKrista Lysack\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the department of English at the University of Western Ontario. Her articles have appeared in such journals as \u003ci\u003eVictorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Contexts\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSEL\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 8.96 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450106658994,"sku":"9780821418116","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ff4876309e808a4d29bea34db787a738.webp?v=1778780362","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/come-buy-come-buy-shopping-and-the-culture-of-consumption-in-victorian-womens-writing-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}