Populating the Novel : : Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life / / Emily Steinlight.
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 perva...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Biopolitical Imagination
- Chapter 1. Populating Solitude
- Chapter 2. Political Animals
- Chapter 3. Dickens's Supernumeraries
- Chapter 4. The Sensation Novel and the Redundant Woman Question
- Chapter 5. "Because We Are Too Menny"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index