Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Death by invisible hand -- How to let die: Malthusian medicine in Martineau and Marcus -- Making ill: pathoeconomics in Gaskell's industrial novels -- Letting die slowly: necroeconomic pleasure in Dickens's Bleak house -- Unfeeling capitalism, future and past: Middlemarch, Felix Holt, and news from nowhere -- Afterword: Our necroeconomic present.
Summary:
"Explores how Victorian novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, William Morris, and George Eliot depict feelings that both fuel and are produced by a capitalist economic system that capitalizes upon death"-- Provided by publisher.
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