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

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

Gallagher, Catherine

Paperback

EconomicsLiterary CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 0691136300
ISBN13: 9780691136301
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Mar 30 2008
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

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.


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