The feeling of letting die : necroeconomics and Victorian fiction / Jennifer MacLure.
| Author/creator | MacLure, Jennifer author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2023] |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | viii, 177 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780814283165 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023029921 |
| ISBN | 9780814214855 |
| ISBN | 0814214851 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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