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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gallagher, Catherine.
Imprint:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
Description:	209 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Economics. Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Economics. Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 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. Death in literature. Economic history. Economics. Economics in literature. English fiction. Human body in literature. Senses and sensation in literature. Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5789941

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ISBN:	0691123586 (cl : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Romantics and the Political Economists
Chapter 2. Bioeconomics and Somaeconomics: Life and Sensation in Classical Political Economy
Chapter 3. Hard Times and the Somaeconomics of the Early Victorians
Chapter 4. The Bioeconomics of Our Mutual Friend
Chapter 5. Daniel Deronda and the Too Much of Literature
Chapter 6. Malthusian Anthropology and the Aesthetics of Sacrifice in Scenes of Clerical Life
Afterword
Index

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