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The feeling of letting die : necroeconomics and Victorian fiction / Jennifer MacLure.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacLure, Jennifer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865--Criticism and interpretation.
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn.
- Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876--Criticism and interpretation.
- Martineau, Harriet.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Morris, William, 1834-1896--Criticism and interpretation.
- Morris, William.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Criticism and interpretation.
- Eliot, George.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Capitalism in literature.
- Capitalism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Capitalism and literature.
- Economics--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Death by invisible hand
- How to let die: Malthusian medicine in Martineau and Marcus
- Making ill: pathoeconomics in Gaskell's industrial novels
- Letting die slowly: necroeconomic pleasure in Dickens's Bleak house
- Unfeeling capitalism, future and past: Middlemarch, Felix Holt, and news from nowhere
- Afterword: Our necroeconomic present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814283301 (electronic bk.)
- 0814283306 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40031964353
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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