LEADER 04123nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910792398603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-2684-5 010 $a9786612158025 010 $a1-282-15802-3 010 $a0-691-12358-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826841 035 $a(CKB)2560000000324406 035 $a(EBL)457799 035 $a(OCoLC)436342578 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113548 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133767 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113548 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10101600 035 $a(PQKB)11220150 035 $a(OCoLC)438775953 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36176 035 $a(DE-B1597)446502 035 $a(OCoLC)979576702 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826841 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457799 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312643 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215802 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457799 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000324406 100 $a20050217d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe body economic$b[electronic resource] $elife, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel /$fCatherine Gallagher 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13630-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEconomics in literature 606 $aEconomics$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSenses and sensation in literature 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aDeath in literature 607 $aGreat Britain$xEconomic conditions$y19th century 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEconomics in literature. 615 0$aEconomics$xHistory 615 0$aSenses and sensation in literature. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aDeath in literature. 676 $a823/.8093553 700 $aGallagher$b Catherine$0325348 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792398603321 996 $aThe body economic$93728941 997 $aUNINA