Populating the Novel : Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life /

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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
Main Author: Steinlight, Emily, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Population in literature.
Malthusianism.
Fertility, Human, in literature.
English fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Malthusianisme.
Fecondite humaine dans la litterature.
Population dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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."

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