The Feeling of Letting Die Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction【電子書籍】[ Jennifer MacLure ]

＜p＞In ＜em＞The Feeling of Letting Die＜/em＞, 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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Utilizing Achille Mbembe’s theorization of necropolitics, MacLure uses the term “necroeconomics,” positioning Victorian authorsーeven those who were deeply committed to liberal capitalismー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, ＜em＞The Feeling of Letting Die＜/em＞ shows capitalism as not straightforwardly imposed via economic policy but instead as a system functioning th．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る