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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Auteur principal: Gallagher, Catherine
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2006.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rh1b
Table des matières:
  • 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.