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The pleasures of Benthamism : Victorian literature, utility, political economy /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blake, Kathleen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Bentham, Jeremy, > 1748-1832.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Utilitarianism.
Economics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Victorian literature, utility, political economy : the case of Bleak house
  • Pleasures of Benthamism--utility, or, 'people mutht be amuthed' : Bentham and Hard times
  • Pains--'work while it is called today' : utility, political economy, Carlyle, and Trollope
  • Pains--capital versus the gift in The mill on the floss
  • 'On liberty' and laissez-faire
  • Time and the textile industry : Gaskell and Tagore
  • Utilitarian political economy and empire : Mill as liberal imperialist.