Gallagher The Body Economic

Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2684-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gallagher, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

CHAPTER 1: The Romantics and the Political Economists 7

CHAPTER 2: Bioeconomics and Somaeconomics:Life and Sensation in Classical Political Economy 35

CHAPTER 3: Hard Times and the Somaeconomics of the Early Victorians 62

CHAPTER 4: The Bioeconomics of Our Mutual Friend 86

CHAPTER 5: Daniel Deronda and the Too Much of Literature 118

CHAPTER 6: Malthusian Anthropology and the Aesthetics of Sacrifice in Scenes of Clerical Life 156

Afterword 185

Index 195

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Gallagher is Eggers Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction, Nobody's Story, The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, and Practicing New Historicism (with Stephen Greenblatt).