The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel 9781400826841, 1400826845

The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economi

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The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel
9781400826841, 1400826845

A work of political theory arguing that sensation—the taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions o

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Studies the shift in the theory of novel writing from a focus on biography and esthetics to narrative fiction during the

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Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period’s rising f

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Religious issues played a prominent role in Victorian England and had a profound influence on the culture of that period

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Analyzing the expression of scientific understanding and the technological manipulation of fluids—blood, breast milk, an

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This book explores how economics can be based around studies on human behaviour, rather than relying on overly simplifie

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The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life considers the rise of a hybrid generic form, the verse-novel, in the second

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Positions the sensation novel, and nineteenth-century popular fiction more generally, as vital to the history of feeling

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