From 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. Come Buy, Come Buy considers
representations of the female shopper in British women\u2019s
writing and demonstrates how women\u2019s 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
suffragist newspaper Votes for Women, in order to challenge the
dominant construction of Victorian femininity as characterized by
self-renunciation and the regulation of appetite. Come Buy, Come
Buy considers not only literary works, but also a variety of
archival sources (shopping guides, women\u2019s fashion magazines,
household management guides, newspapers, and advertisements) and
cultural practices (department store shopping, shoplifting and
kleptomania, domestic economy, and suffragette shopkeeping). This
wealth of sources reveals unexpected relationships between
consumption, identity, and citizenship, as Lysack traces a
genealogy of the woman shopper from dissident domestic spender to
aesthetic saloni\u00e8re, from curious shop-gazer to political
radical.
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