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

by Catherine Gallagher

Book Overview

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"