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

By: Gallagher, Catherine.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006Description: 209 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Economics | Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Economics | 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 | Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 823/.8093553 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.