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Populating the novelliterary form and the politics of surplus life /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Populating the novelEmily Steinlight.
Reminder of title:	literary form and the politics of surplus life /
Author:	Steinlight, Emily.
Published:	Ithaca, NY :Cornell University Press,c2018.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 278 p.)
Subject:	English fictionHistory and criticism.19th century
Online resource:	http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501710728
ISBN:	9781501710728$q(electronic bk.)

Populating the novelliterary form and the politics of surplus life /
Steinlight, Emily.

Populating the novelliterary form and the politics of surplus life /[electronic resource] :Emily Steinlight. - 1st ed. - Ithaca, NY :Cornell University Press,c2018. - 1 online resource (xi, 278 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frontmatter --

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. In so doing, she transforms the subject and political stakes of the Victorian novel, dislodging the longstanding idea that its central category is the individual by demonstrating how fiction is altered by its emerging concern with population. By overpopulating narrative space and imagining the human species perpetually in excess of the existing social order, she shows, fiction made it necessary to radically reimagine life in the aggregate.

In English.

ISBN: 9781501710728$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.7591/9781501710728doi

LCCN: 2017057411Subjects--Topical Terms:

178123
English fiction
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR868.P683 / S74 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.809353

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