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Pleasures of Benthamism : Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy by Kathleen Blake (2010, Hardcover)

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199563268

ISBN-139780199563265

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Number of Pages288 Pages

Publication NamePleasures of Benthamism : Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

SubjectGeneral, Movements / Utilitarianism, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

AuthorKathleen Blake

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight17.2 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.7 in

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Reviews"Expands awareness of utilitarianism's pervasive presence in Victorian culture and redirects attention to its humane and progressive aspects in promoting the values of pleasure, fulfillment, and freedom...Recommended." --Choice, "Expands awareness of utilitarianism's pervasive presence in Victorian culture and redirects attention to its humane and progressive aspects in promoting the values of pleasure, fulfillment, and freedom...Recommended." --Choice"The richer picture that the book achieves is a precious addition to our historical reading of culture in the Victorian era." --Economics and Philosophy, "Expands awareness of utilitarianism's pervasive presence in Victorian culture and redirects attention to its humane and progressive aspects in promoting the values of pleasure, fulfillment, and freedom...Recommended." --Choice "The richer picture that the book achieves is a precious addition to our historical reading of culture in the Victorian era." --Economics and Philosophy

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal820.9008

Table Of Content1. Introduction: Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy: The Case of Bleak House2. Pleasures of Benthamism - Utility, or, 'People mutht be amuthed': Bentham and Hard Times3. Pains - 'Work while it is called Today': Utility, Political Economy, Carlyle, and Trollope 130 Utility, Political Economy, Carlyle, and Trollope4. Pains - Capital versus the Gift in The Mill on the Floss5. 'On Liberty' and Laisser Faire6. Time and the Textile Industry: Gaskell and Tagore7. Utilitarian Political Economy and Empire: Mill as Liberal ImperialistConclusionReferences

SynopsisThis book offers a fresh look at the often-censured but imperfectly understood traditions of Utilitarianism and political economy in their bearing for Victorian literature and culture. It treats writings by Jeremy Bentham, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, James and John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Rabindranath Tagore. It sets texts in historical context, examines style as well as ideas, and aims to widen awareness of commonalities across seemingly divided expressions of the age. A work of 'new economic criticism,' it also treats Utilitarianism, close kin to political economy but even more poorly understood and poorly regarded. No other literary study addresses Bentham so fully. The book further contributes to study of Victorian literature-and-liberalism and Victorian liberalism-and-imperialism. It challenges a high-cultural perspective and a perspective of ideology-critique that derive from F. R. Leavis and Michel Foucault and inform the prevailing idea of Victorian literature: as contender against the repressive mentality of Mr. Gradgrind, Dickens's caricature of a Smith-Benthamite; against the 'carceral' social discipline of Bentham's Panopticon; and against the 'dismal science.' But 'utility' has the happier meaning of pleasure. This study presents a capitalist, liberal age pursuing utility in commerce, industry, and socioeconomic/political reforms; favorable to freedom; and 'leveling' as regards gender and class. What about empire? a question not generally so squarely confronted in works on Victorian literature-and-economics and Victorian literature-and-liberalism. Shown here is the surprising extent to which liberalism develops as liberalism through 'liberal imperialism'., A fresh look at the often-censured but imperfectly understood traditions of Utilitarianism and political economy in relation to Victorian literature and culture. Setting the writings of Bentham, Smith, Malthus, Mill, Dickens, Carlyle, Trollope, Eliot, Gaskell, and Tagore in historical context, Blake widens awareness of commonalities across the age., This book offers a fresh look at the often-censured but imperfectly understood traditions of Utilitarianism and political economy in their bearing for Victorian literature and culture. It treats writings by Jeremy Bentham, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, James and John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Rabindranath Tagore. It sets texts in historical context, examines style as well asideas, and aims to widen awareness of commonalities across seemingly divided expressions of the age. A work of 'new economic criticism,' it also treats Utilitarianism, close kin to political economy buteven more poorly understood and poorly regarded. No other literary study addresses Bentham so fully. The book further contributes to study of Victorian literature-and-liberalism and Victorian liberalism-and-imperialism. It challenges a high-cultural perspective and a perspective of ideology-critique that derive from F. R. Leavis and Michel Foucault and inform the prevailing idea of Victorian literature: as contender against the repressive mentality of Mr. Gradgrind, Dickens's caricature of aSmith-Benthamite; against the 'carceral' social discipline of Bentham's Panopticon; and against the 'dismal science.' But 'utility' has the happier meaning of pleasure. This study presents a capitalist,liberal age pursuing utility in commerce, industry, and socioeconomic/political reforms; favourable to freedom; and 'leveling' as regards gender and class. What about empire? a question not generally so squarely confronted in works on Victorian literature-and-economics and Victorian literature-and-liberalism. Shown here is the surprising extent to which liberalism develops as liberalism through 'liberal imperialism'., This book offers a fresh look at the often-censured but imperfectly understood traditions of Utilitarianism and political economy in their bearing for Victorian literature and culture. It treats writings by Jeremy Bentham, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, James and John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Rabindranath Tagore. It sets texts in historical context, examines style as well as ideas, and aims to widen awareness of commonalities across seemingly divided expressions of the age. A work of 'new economic criticism, ' it also treats Utilitarianism, close kin to political economy but even more poorly understood and poorly regarded. No other literary study addresses Bentham so fully. The book further contributes to study of Victorian literature-and-liberalism and Victorian liberalism-and-imperialism. It challenges a high-cultural perspective and a perspective of ideology-critique that derives from F. R. Leavis and Michel Foucault and inform the prevailing idea of Victorian literature: as contender against the repressive mentality of Mr. Gradgrind, Dickens's caricature of a Smith-Benthamite; against the 'carceral' social discipline of Bentham's Panopticon; and against the 'dismal science.' But 'utility' has the happier meaning of pleasure. This study presents a capitalist, liberal age pursuing utility in commerce, industry, and socioeconomic/political reforms; favorable to freedom; and 'leveling' as regards gender and class. What about empire? A question not generally so squarely confronted in works on Victorian literature-and-economics and Victorian literature-and-liberalism. Shown here is the surprising extent to which liberalism develops as liberalism through 'liberal imperialism'.

LC Classification NumberPR451