The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction

In The Feeling of Letting Die, Jennifer MacLure explores how Victorian novels depict the feelings that both...
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The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction by Maclure, Jennifer

The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction

$234.85

The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction

$234.85
Author: Jennifer Maclure
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Jennifer Maclure
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 11/02/2023
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780814214855

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