Review: Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature, by Meg Dobbins

Book Review| June 01 2024 Review: Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature, by Meg Dobbins Meg Dobbins, Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2022. Pp. viii + 187. 69. 95. Jill Rappoport Jill Rappoport University of Kentucky Jill Rappoport is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Giving Women: Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture (Oxford University Press, 2012), as well as essays in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, Studies in English Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Nineteenth- Century Literature. Rappoport is also co-editor of Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (with Lana Dalley; The Ohio State University Press, 2013). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nineteenth-Century Literature (2024) 79 (1): 62–65. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/ncl. 2024. 79. 1. 62 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature, by Meg Dobbins. Nineteenth-Century Literature 1 June 2024; 79 (1): 62–65. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/ncl. 2024. 79. 1. 62 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNineteenth-Century Literature Search Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature joins an important critical conversation that has been widening our understanding of economic desire and interpersonal relations in the nineteenth century. Well-researched and building on rich foundations by such literary, historical, and economic scholars as Holly Furneaux, Nancy Henry, Deanna Kreisel, Aeron Hunt, Sharon Marcus, Deirdre McCloskey, Mary Poovey, George Robb, and others, this scholarly monograph offers a compelling look at both the breadth of economic strategies depicted in Victorian fiction and non-fiction prose and the forms of family and friendship that emerge out of them. In this engaging and erudite book about non-normative economics, Meg Dobbins "asks…not how queer can be expanded to include a sense of economic rather than erotic eccentricity, but how queer came to forget the economic meaning (s) it once included in its story" (p. 23). Queer Economic Dissonance focuses primarily on novels by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, and George. . . You do not currently have access to this content.