UID:
edocfu_9959228770102883
Format:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-5017-6171-4
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1-5017-1072-9
Series Statement:
Cornell scholarship online
Content:
From the teeming streets of Dickens's London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In 'Populating the Novel', Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic shift in British political thought. She shows how the nineteenth-century novel in particular claimed a new cultural role as it took on the task of narrating human aggregation at a moment when the Malthusian specter of surplus population suddenly and quite unexpectedly became a central premise of modern politics. In readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Mary Braddon, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad that link fiction and biopolitics, Steinlight brings the crowds that pervade nineteenth-century fiction into the foreground.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2018.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction. The Biopolitical Imagination --
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Chapter 1. Populating Solitude --
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Chapter 2. Political Animals --
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Chapter 3. Dickens's Supernumeraries --
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Chapter 4. The Sensation Novel and the Redundant Woman Question --
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Chapter 5. "Because We Are Too Menny" --
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Conclusion --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5017-1071-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5017-1070-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7591/9781501710728
