| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the biopolitical imagination -- Populating solitude : Malthus, the masses, and the romantic subject -- Political animals : the Victorian city, demography, and the politics of creaturely life -- Dickens's supernumeraries -- The sensation novel and the redundant woman questions -- "Because we are too menny." |
| Summary |
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 ... |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Population in literature.
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Population in literature. |
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Fertility, Human, in literature.
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Fertility, Human, in literature. |
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Malthusianism.
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Malthusianism. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steinlight, Emily, 1979- Populating the novel. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501710704 (DLC) 2017027639 |
| ISBN |
9781501710728 (electronic book) |
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1501710729 (electronic book) |
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9781501710711 |
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1501710710 |
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9781501710704 (hardcover) |
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