The body economic : life, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel /
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 th...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©2006.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rh1b |
Table of Contents:
- The Romantics and the political economists
- Bioeconomics and somaeconomics : life and sensation in classical political economy
- Hard times and the somaeconomics of the early Victorians
- The bioeconomics of Our mutual friend
- Daniel Deronda and the too much of literature
- Malthusian anthropology and the aesthetics of sacrifice in Scenes of clerical life.