Umfang:
viii, 177 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780814214855
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0814214851
Inhalt:
Klappentext: In 'The Feeling of Letting Die', Jennifer MacLure explores how Victorian novels depict the feelings that both fuel and are produced by an economic system that lets some people die in service of the free market. MacLure argues that Victorian authors present capitalism's death function as a sticking point, a series of contradictions, and a problem to solve as characters grapple with systems that allow, demand, and cause the deaths of their less fortunate fellows. Utilizing Achille Mbembe's theorization of necropolitics, MacLure uses the term "necroeconomics," positioning Victorian authors - even those who were deeply committed to liberal capitalism - as hyperaware of capitalism's death function. Examining both canonical and lesser-known works by Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, William Morris, and George Eliot, The Feeling of Letting Die shows capitalism as not straightforwardly imposed via economic policy but instead as a system functioning through the emotions and desires of the human beings who enact it. In doing so, MacLure reveals how emotion functions as both the legitimating epistemic mode of capitalism and its most salient threat.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Inhaltsverzeichnis: 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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780814283301
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0814283306
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Englisch
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Literatur
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Kapitalismus
;
Tod
;
Kultur
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Geschichte 1837-1901
URL:
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814214855.html
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