The body economic
Subtitle: life, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel
By: Catherine Gallagher.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: 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; Body, Human, in literature; Death in literature; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Description: "The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic "life," making human sensations - especially pleasure and pain - the sources and signs of that value."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.