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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Tác giả chính: Gallagher, Catherine
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2006.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rh1b
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