TY - GEN T1 - The body economic : life, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel A1 - Gallagher, Catherine LA - English PP - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2006 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn438775953 AB - The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic ""life, "" making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political econom OP - 209 CN - PR878.E37 G35 2006eb SN - 9781400826841 SN - 1400826845 SN - 9786612158025 SN - 6612158026 SN - 1282158023 SN - 9781282158023 SN - 0691123586 SN - 9780691123585 SN - 0691136300 SN - 9780691136301 KW - Dickens, Charles, : 1812-1870 : Knowledge : Economics. KW - Eliot, George, : 1819-1880 : Knowledge : Economics. KW - Dickens, Charles, : 1812-1870 : Et l'économie politique. KW - Eliot, George, : 1819-1880 : Et l'économie politique. KW - Dickens, Charles, : 1812-1870 KW - Eliot, George, : 1819-1880 KW - English fiction : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - Economics in literature. KW - Economics : Great Britain : History : 19th century. KW - Great Britain : Economic conditions : 19th century. KW - Senses and sensation in literature. KW - Human body in literature. KW - Death in literature. KW - Roman anglais : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Économie politique dans la littérature. KW - Économie politique : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Sens et sensations dans la littérature. KW - Corps humain dans la littérature. KW - Mort dans la littérature. KW - Grande-Bretagne : Conditions économiques : 19e siècle. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - Death in literature KW - Economic history KW - Economics KW - Economics in literature KW - English fiction KW - Human body in literature KW - Senses and sensation in literature KW - Great Britain KW - 1800-1899 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -