The body economic [electronic resource] : life, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel / Catherine Gallagher.
Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.Description: 209 pISBN:- 0691123586 (cl : alk. paper)
- 9780691123585 (cl : alk. paper)
- 9780691136301
- 9781400826841
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Economics
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Economics
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Economics in literature
- Economics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Senses and sensation in literature
- Human body in literature
- Death in literature
- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
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- PR878.E37 G35 2006eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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