The Pleasures Of Benthamism: Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy,New

The Pleasures Of Benthamism: Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy,New

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This Book Offers A Fresh Look At The Oftencensured 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 To Widen 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 Further Contributes To Study Of Victorian Literatureandliberalism And Victorian Liberalismandimperialism. It Challenges A Highcultural Perspective And A Perspective Of Ideologycritique That Derives 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 Smithbenthamite; 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; Favorable To Freedom; And 'Leveling' As Regards Gender And Class. What About Empire? A Question Not Generally So Squarely Confronted In Works On Victorian Literatureandeconomics And Victorian Literatureandliberalism. Shown Here Is The Surprising Extent To Which Liberalism Develops As Liberalism Through 'Liberal Imperialism'.

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