Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. The Feminist Library: Classic Essays in Literary and Cultural Criticism Series Editors’ Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. Introduction Unexpected Items 1
7. Part I PARENTHOOD
8. 1. Generations 13
9. 2. A Tale of Two Parents: Dickens’s Great Expectations 31
10. 3. Finding a Life: George Eliot’s Silas Marner 45
11. 4. How Not to Be Parented: Speech Creatures in Pamela and Pride and Prejudice 60
12. Part II CONSUMER CULTURE
13. 5. Soft Sell: Marketing Rhetoric in Feminist Criticism 71
14. 6. Make Up Your Mind: Scenes from the Psychology of Selling and Shopping 79
15. 7. The Uses of Shopping: Richard Hoggart Goes to Woolworth’s 102
16. 8. Scenes of Shopping 120
17. 9. Buying the Baby, Growing Your Own 131
18. Part III FEMINIST DIRECTIONS
19. 10. Fifty Fifty: Female Subjectivity and the Danaids 141
20. 11 Domestication 168
21. 12. ‘We’re Getting There’: Woolf and Feminist Criticism 188
22. 13. Untold Stories in Mrs Dalloway 203
23. 14. ‘I Had Barbara’: Women’s Ties and Wharton’s ‘Roman Fever’ 224
24. Index 237