Bazaar Literature

Leslee Thorne-Murphy is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, where she teaches British literature. In addition, she currently serves as Associate Dean of the College of Humanities. She co-edited The Discourse of Philanthropy in the Anglo-American Tradition, 1850-1920 with Frank Christianson, and she co-edits The Victorian Short Fiction Project with her students.

• Introduction Section 1 Bazaar Discourse 1: "A Booth in Vanity Fair": Charity Bazaars and the Methods of Fiction 2: Sites of Civil Society: The Bazaar Woman in a Mimic Market Section 2 Literature at the Bazaar 3: Fair Value: The 1845 Anti-Corn Law League Bazaar and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island 4: "In My Broken Heart's Disdain": Sentimental Disengagement and Religious Parody in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" Section 3 Fictional Bazaars 5: Bazaar Authorship: Fiction and Philanthropy in Charlotte M. Yonge's The Daisy Chain and The Three Brides 6: Myth and Revelation: Maggie as Bazaar Woman in George Eliot's Mill on the Floss 7: Un)Truthful Narration: Flirtation and Predation in Frances Trollope's The Vicar of Wrexhill and Anthony Trollope's Miss Mackenzie Conclusion Fancy Fair or Nonesuch Bazaar? Notes Bibliography Index

This survey of the charity bazaar in 19th-century literature is not just a monographic study of a specialized topic. It is a commanding survey that positions the bazaar as a significant theme in British fiction.