The Body Economic

Description:

"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. 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."--Jacket.

subjects: Body, Human, in literature,  Death in literature,  Economic conditions,  Economics,  Economics in literature,  English fiction,  History,  History and criticism,  Knowledge,  Senses and sensation in literature,  Dickens, charles, 1812-1870,  Eliot, george, 1819-1880,  English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century,  Economics, history,  Human body in literature,  Great britain, economic conditions, 19th century,  Et l'économie politique,  Roman anglais,  Histoire et critique,  Économie politique dans la littérature,  Économie politique,  Histoire,  Sens et sensations dans la littérature,  Corps humain dans la littérature,  Mort dans la littérature,  Conditions économiques,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Economic history,  Knowledge and learning

People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870),  George Eliot (1819-1880)

Places: Great Britain

Times: 19th century