The feeling of letting die : necroeconomics and Victorian fiction

The feeling of letting die : necroeconomics and Victorian fiction / Jennifer MacLure.

Author/creator	MacLure, Jennifer author.
Format	Tactile Material, Book, and Print
Publication Info	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
Copyright Notice	©2023
Description	viii, 177 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	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. English fiction--19th century --History and criticism. Capitalism in literature. Capitalism and literature--Great Britain --History --19th century. Economics--Great Britain --History --19th century.

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)
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