Deanna K. Kreisel
In Economic Woman,
Deanna K. Kreisel shows how images of feminized sexuality in novels by George
Eliot and Thomas Hardy reflected widespread contemporary anxieties about the
growth of capitalism. Economic Woman is
the first book to address directly the links between classical political
economy and gender in the novel. Examining key works by Eliot and Hardy, including The Mill on the Floss and Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Kreisel
investigates the meaning of two female representations: the ‘economic woman,’
who embodies idealized sexual restraint and wise domestic management, and the
degraded prostitute, characterized by sexual excess and economic turmoil.
Kreisel effectively integrates economic thought with literary analysis to
contribute to an ongoing and lively scholarly discussion.
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