04157nam 2200781 a 450 991046521240332120200520144314.01-4008-2684-597866121580251-282-15802-30-691-12358-610.1515/9781400826841(CKB)2560000000324406(EBL)457799(OCoLC)436342578(SSID)ssj0000113548(PQKBManifestationID)11133767(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113548(PQKBWorkID)10101600(PQKB)11220150(MiAaPQ)EBC457799(OCoLC)438775953(MdBmJHUP)muse36176(DE-B1597)446502(OCoLC)979576702(DE-B1597)9781400826841(Au-PeEL)EBL457799(CaPaEBR)ebr10312643(CaONFJC)MIL215802(EXLCZ)99256000000032440620050217d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe body economic[electronic resource] life, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel /Catherine GallagherCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc20061 online resource (222 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-13630-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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. Catherine 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. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEconomics in literatureEconomicsGreat BritainHistory19th centurySenses and sensation in literatureHuman body in literatureDeath in literatureGreat BritainEconomic conditions19th centuryElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.Economics in literature.EconomicsHistorySenses and sensation in literature.Human body in literature.Death in literature.823/.8093553Gallagher Catherine325348MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465212403321The body economic2449685UNINA