Title The body economic : life, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel / Catherine Gallagher

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages) Contents 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 Summary 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 that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic ""life, "" making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political econom Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Economics Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Economics SUBJECT Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Economics Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Economics Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 fast Eliot, George, 1819-1880 fast Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Death in literature Economic history Economics Economics in literature English fiction Human body in literature Senses and sensation in literature SUBJECT Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056675 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400826841 1400826845 9786612158025 6612158026 1282158023 9781282158023

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