Household Clearances in Victorian Fiction

The deathbed apart, there are few scenes more profoundly disturbing in nineteenth-century fiction than the household clearance, or the process of 'selling up': the identification of domestic material goods for sale at auction, either in situ, or elsewhere. Of course, we shouldn't be s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David Trotter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2008-04-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/472