Description: Examines how precarious economic figures in texts by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, and more queered Victorian socioeconomic norms.
Review Quotes: "This book represents a highly productive contribution to the study of capitalism's origins and oddities and to the field of Victorian studies as a whole. Accessible enough for advanced undergraduates, this book pairs the productive expansiveness of queer theory with the specificity of historicist economic contextualization to demonstrate a fresh approach to reading queerness historically." --Jennifer MacLure, Anglia