The body economic

Gallagher, Catherine.

The body economic life, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel / [electronic resource] : Catherine Gallagher. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. - 209 p.

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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2013.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Knowledge--Economics.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 --Knowledge--Economics.


English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Economics in literature.
Economics--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Senses and sensation in literature.
Human body in literature.
Death in literature.


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


Electronic books.

PR878.E37 / G35 2006eb

823/.8093553