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EBOOK Pleasures of Benthamism:Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191609800
EAN: 37F23005EB
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Stron: 280
Data wydania: 2009
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This book offers a fresh look at the often-censured but imperfectly understood        traditions of Utilitarianism and political economy in their bearing for Victorian        literature and culture. It treats writings by Jeremy Bentham, Adam Smith, Thomas        Malthus, David Ricardo, James and John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle,        Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Rabindranath Tagore. It sets        texts in historical context, examines style as well as ideas, and aims towiden        awareness of commonalities across seemingly divided expressions of the age. A work        of 'new economic criticism,' it also treats Utilitarianism, close kin to political        economy but even more poorly understood and poorly regarded. No other literary study        addresses Bentham so fully. The book furthercontributes to study of Victorian        literature-and-liberalism and Victorian liberalism-and-imperialism. It challenges a        high-cultural perspective and a perspective of ideology-critique that derive from F.          R. Leavis and Michel Foucault and inform the prevailing idea of Victorian        literature: as contender against the repressive mentality of Mr. Gradgrind,        Dickens's caricature of a Smith-Benthamite; against the 'carceral' social discipline        of Bentham's Panopticon; and against the 'dismal science.'But 'utility' has the        happier meaning of pleasure. This study presents a capitalist, liberal age pursuing        utility in commerce, industry, and socioeconomic/political reforms; favourable to        freedom; and 'leveling' as regards gender and class. What about empire? a question        not generally so squarelyconfronted in works on Victorian literature-and-economics        and Victorian literature-and-liberalism. Shown here is the surprising extent to        which liberalism develops as liberalism through 'liberal imperialism'.

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