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Populating the novel : literary form and the politics of surplus life / Emily Steinlight.
Van Pelt Library PR868.P683 S74 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinlight, Emily, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Population in literature.
- Fertility, Human, in literature.
- Malthusianism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 278 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- 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."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Steinlight, Emily, 1979- Populating the novel.
- ISBN:
- 9781501710704
- 1501710702
- OCLC:
- 989965447
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