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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gallagher, Catherine
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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.