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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallagher, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Economics in literature.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Knowledge and learning--Economics.

Dickens, Charles.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Economics.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Knowledge and learning--Economics.

Eliot, George.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880.

Economics--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

History.

Great Britain--Economic conditions--19th century.

Economic conditions.

Senses and sensation in literature.

Human body in literature.

Death in literature.

Physical Description:

209 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]

Summary:

"A marvelous book. No other literary critic writes with such an assured and lucid grasp of both the novel and the history of economic theory."--James Eli Adams, Cornell University

"This is a stunning and extremely important book whose scholarship is deep and sound from start to finish. Gallagher offers a fundamentally original and revisionary understanding of Victorian culture and of modernist literature as well."--George Levine, Rutgers University

"Well-researched, clearly argued, and both original and provocative."--Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Romantics and the Political Economists 7

Chapter 2 Bioeconomics and Somaeconomics: Life and Sensation in Classical Political Economy 35

Chapter 3 Hard Times and the Somaeconomics of the Early Victorians 62

Chapter 4 The Bioeconomics of Our Mutual Friend 86

Chapter 5 Daniel Deronda and the Too Much of Literature 118

Chapter 6 Malthusian Anthropology and the Aesthetics of Sacrifice in Scenes of Clerical Life 156.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691123586

OCLC:

58422868

Publisher Number:

9780691123585