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

by Catherine Gallagher

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691136300

ISBN13:9780691136301

Release Date:March 2008

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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