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Populating the novel : literary form and the politics of surplus life /

From the teeming streets of Dickens's London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than ...

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Steinlight, Emily, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the biopolitical imagination
  • Populating solitude : Malthus, the masses, and the romantic subject
  • Political animals : the Victorian city, demography, and the politics of creaturely life
  • Dickens's supernumeraries
  • The sensation novel and the redundant woman questions
  • "Because we are too menny."