The body economic : life, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel /
Gallagher, Catherine.
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2006.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
English fiction
Economics in literature.
Economics
Senses and sensation in literature.
Human body in literature.
Death in literature.