Author: Catherine Gallagher File Type: pdf The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic life, making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises.The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliots realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.Review[An] astute and innovative reevaluation of the interplay between fiction and economic thought . . . [The Body Economic] represents a major contribution to literary studies and intellectual history. (Margot Finn Journal of Victorian Culture )In a stunningly innovative gesture, Gallagher points out that the thin-blooded political economists and the warm-hearted Romantic organicists of early nineteenth-century Britain had a good deal more in common than is generally supposed. (Terry Eagleton Field Day Review )Gallaghers brilliance as an intellectual historian has always resided in her ability to show us how ideas that look different are really alike, and how ideas we tend to lump together are really different. . . . The Body Economic . . . is a gift to the intelligence of every student of nineteenth-century culture. (Rosemarie Bodenheimer Nineteenth-Century Literature )[B]rings the history of economics into the heart of modern literature and literary theory, showing how much modernisms anti-bourgeois presentation of sex owed to a complex century-long debate about wealth and poverty. It is a rare achievement. (Gordon Bigelow Modernismmodernity )Many of Gallaghers local observations and textual analyses are stunningly perceptive and original. . . . Gallaghers treatments of the four novels she examines in detail are also complex and rewarding. Her analysis of Daniel Deronda, which turns on the resemblance between Jevons marginal utility formula and Eliots exploration of Gwendolens and Elits storries about being redundant--a final increment that can never be as desirable as its predecessors--is a tour de force that illuminates the novel in fascinating ways. (Victorian Studies )With admirable economy and a clear sense of purpose, The Body Economic explores and collapses the gulf popularly held to exist between the values and mindsets of post-Enlightenment political economists, represented here by Bentham and Malthus, and those of nineteenth-century imaginative novelists, here represented in the mid-Victorian phase by Dickens, and in the late, by George Eliot. . . . [An] original and considerable accomplishment. (Dickens Quarterly )In her commanding and authoritative new study Catherine Gallagher[s] . . . The Body Economic will doubtless become required reading for anyone seeking to understand the complex lines of affiliation and resistance between economic theory and the literary text in the mid-Victorian period. (Roger Ebbatson Modern Language Review )[This] is an innovative and provocative book, brimming with fresh insights. . . . Gallaghers use of political economy to explain the most puzzling features of Dickenss novel is inspirational, and it will likely become a model for future studies. (Silvana Colella Nineteenth Century Studies ) From the Inside FlapA marvelous book. No other literary critic writes with such an assured and lucid grasp of both the novel and the history of economic theory.--James Eli Adams, Cornell UniversityThis is a stunning and extremely important book whose scholarship is deep and sound from start to finish. Gallagher offers a fundamentally original and revisionary understanding of Victorian culture and of modernist literature as well.--George Levine, Rutgers UniversityWell-researched, clearly argued, and both original and provocative.--Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University

Author: C. G. Jung File Type: pdf This volume has become known as perhaps the best introduction to Jungs work. In these famous essays. The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious and On the Psychology of the Unconscious, he presented the essential core of his system. Historically, they mark the end of Jungs intimate association with Freud and sum up his attempt to integrate the psychological schools of Freud and Adler into a comprehensive framework. This is the first paperback publication of this key work in its revised and augmented second edition of 1966. The earliest versions of the Two Essays, New Paths in Psychology (1912) and The Structure of the Unconscious (1916), discovered among Jungs posthumous papers, are published in an appendix, to show the development of Jungs thought in later versions. As an aid to study, the index has been comprehensively expanded. This volume has become known as perhaps the best introduction to Jungs work. In these famous essays. The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious and On the Psychology of the Unconscious, he presented the essential core of his system. Historically, they mark the end of Jungs intimate association with Freud and sum up his attempt to integrate the psychological schools of Freud and Adler into a comprehensive framework. This is the first paperback publication of this key work in its revised and augmented second edition of 1966. The earliest versions of the Two Essays, New Paths in Psychology (1912) and The Structure of the Unconscious (1916), discovered among Jungs posthumous papers, are published in an appendix, to show the development of Jungs thought in later versions. As an aid to study, the index has been comprehensively expanded. **