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The Body Economic
Catherine Gallagher
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
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.
The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.
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Capitalism, Social theory, Laborer, Economics, Marginal utility, Political economy, Labor theory of value, Novelist, The Wealth of Nations, Infanticide, Literary criticism, Jeremy Bentham, Daniel Deronda, George Eliot, Thought, Industrial society, Homo economicus, Felicific calculus, Public lecture, Wealth, David Ricardo, Malthusianism, An Essay on the Principle of Population, Food security, Writing, Neoclassical economics, Narrative, Thomas Robert Malthus, Hedonism, The dismal science, Romanticism, Behavioral economics, Ethics, Dichotomy, Supply (economics), Criticism, Theory, Pain and pleasure, Psychology, Rate of profit, Scarcity (social psychology), Relative value (economics), Classical economics, Charles Dickens, Ricardian economics, Social science, Allegory, Theory of value (economics), Literature, Skepticism, Charles Darwin, Corn Laws, Rhetoric, Theories of Surplus Value, Superiority (short story), Scenes of Clerical Life, Utilitarianism, Novel, John Stuart Mill, Calculation, Misery (novel), Primitive culture, Oxford University Press, Commodity, Intellectual history, Prose, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Irony, Fertility