Elsie B Michie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1080071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elsie B Michie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elsie B |
| FAMILY NAME | Michie |
| SIGNATURE | MICHIE E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Promise of the Suburbs
When Sarah Bilston argues that Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife ‘rais[es], only to unsettle and complicate, stereotypes of the suburbs and the suburbanite’ (p. 156) she perfectly describes her own book. Bilston challenges the persistent stereotype of suburban life as ‘crushingly dull and tasteless’ (p. 1), a stultifying environment of mindless repetition. Her book uncovers instead ‘a counter discourse ... about the suburbs as places tha…
Domestic Manners of the Americans
The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism to science fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction, travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope pr…
The Cut of His Coat
Reviewed by: The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain 1860–1914 Elsie B. Michie (bio) The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain 1860–1914, by Brent Shannon; pp. xi + 252. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006, £31.95, £15.95 paper, $49.95, $24.95 paper. Brent Shannon's The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain 1860–1914 offers a profusion of verbal and visual information about me…
Dressing Up
T HE ANXIETY ABOUT BEING ill- or well-dressed that Margaret Oliphant evokes so vividly in this passage was particularly acute in the last half of the nineteenth century when changes in the clothes people wore reflected increasing class mobility. With the growth of a ready-to-wear clothing industry that made it more and more difficult to distinguish the bourgeoisie from the lower echelons of society, “dress became,” as Charles Blanc argued in 1872…
Buying Brains
Grant Allen's 1894 description of the shift from "the old asceticism [which] said, 'Be virtuous, and you will be happy' [to] the new hedonism [which] says, 'Be happy and you will be virtuous'" (377) applies to large-scale economic movements of the nineteenth century. During the era preceding the expansion of the credit economy, capital was hard to come by; in order to expand businesses, entrepreneurs had to save, borrow from relatives and friends…
Austen's Powers
Research Article| May 01 2000 Austen's Powers: Engaging with Adam Smith in Debates About Wealth and Virtue ELSIE B. MICHIE ELSIE B. MICHIE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Novel (2000) 34 (1): 5–27. https://doi.org/10.2307/1346137 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation ELSIE B. MICHIE; Austen's Powers: Engaging with Adam Smith in Debates About Wealth and Virtue. Novel 1 May 2000; 34 (1):…
Elizabeth Gaskell
Production replaces creation
(1988). Production replaces creation: Market forces and Frankenstein as critique of romanticism. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 27-33
Buying Brains
Grant Allen's 1894 description of the shift from "the old asceticism [which] said, 'Be virtuous, and you will be happy' [to] the new hedonism [which] says, 'Be happy and you will be virtuous'" (377) applies to large-scale economic movements of the nineteenth century. During the era preceding the expansion of the credit economy, capital was hard to come by; in order to expand businesses, entrepreneurs had to save, borrow from relatives and friends…
Production replaces creation
(1988). Production replaces creation: Market forces and Frankenstein as critique of romanticism. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 27-33
Elizabeth Gaskell
Austen's Powers
Research Article| May 01 2000 Austen's Powers: Engaging with Adam Smith in Debates About Wealth and Virtue ELSIE B. MICHIE ELSIE B. MICHIE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Novel (2000) 34 (1): 5–27. https://doi.org/10.2307/1346137 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation ELSIE B. MICHIE; Austen's Powers: Engaging with Adam Smith in Debates About Wealth and Virtue. Novel 1 May 2000; 34 (1):…
Buying Brains
Grant Allen's 1894 description of the shift from "the old asceticism [which] said, 'Be virtuous, and you will be happy' [to] the new hedonism [which] says, 'Be happy and you will be virtuous'" (377) applies to large-scale economic movements of the nineteenth century. During the era preceding the expansion of the credit economy, capital was hard to come by; in order to expand businesses, entrepreneurs had to save, borrow from relatives and friends…
Dressing Up
T HE ANXIETY ABOUT BEING ill- or well-dressed that Margaret Oliphant evokes so vividly in this passage was particularly acute in the last half of the nineteenth century when changes in the clothes people wore reflected increasing class mobility. With the growth of a ready-to-wear clothing industry that made it more and more difficult to distinguish the bourgeoisie from the lower echelons of society, “dress became,” as Charles Blanc argued in 1872…
The Cut of His Coat
Reviewed by: The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain 1860–1914 Elsie B. Michie (bio) The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain 1860–1914, by Brent Shannon; pp. xi + 252. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006, £31.95, £15.95 paper, $49.95, $24.95 paper. Brent Shannon's The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain 1860–1914 offers a profusion of verbal and visual information about me…
The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism to science fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction, travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope pr…
Domestic Manners of the Americans
The Promise of the Suburbs
When Sarah Bilston argues that Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife ‘rais[es], only to unsettle and complicate, stereotypes of the suburbs and the suburbanite’ (p. 156) she perfectly describes her own book. Bilston challenges the persistent stereotype of suburban life as ‘crushingly dull and tasteless’ (p. 1), a stultifying environment of mindless repetition. Her book uncovers instead ‘a counter discourse ... about the suburbs as places tha…
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