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Author:
MacLure, Jennifer, author.
Title:
The feeling of letting die : necroeconomics and Victorian fiction / Jennifer MacLure.
Publisher:
The Ohio State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
viii, 177 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,--1810-1865--Criticism and interpretation.
Martineau, Harriet,--1802-1876--Criticism and interpretation.
Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
Morris, William,--1834-1896--Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Criticism and interpretation.
Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870.
Eliot, George,--1819-1880.
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,--1810-1865.
Martineau, Harriet,--1802-1876.
Morris, William,--1834-1896.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Capitalism in literature.
Capitalism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Economics--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Roman anglais--19e siecle--Histoire et critique.
Capitalisme dans la litterature.
Capitalisme et litterature--Grande-Bretagne--Histoire--19e siecle.
Economie politique--Grande-Bretagne--Histoire--19e siecle.
Capitalism and literature.
Capitalism in literature.
Economics.
English fiction.
Great Britain.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Notes:
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.
ISBN:
0814214851
9780814214855
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1375437863
LCCN:
2023029921
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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