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" Populating the novel : "
Emily Steinlight.
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BL
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Record Number
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852226
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Main Entry
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Steinlight, Emily,1979-
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Title & Author
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Populating the novel : : literary form and the politics of surplus life /\ Emily Steinlight.
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Publication Statement
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Ithaca :: Cornell University Press,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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1 online resource (xi, 278 pages)
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ISBN
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1501710702
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: 1501710729
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: 9781501710704
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: 9781501710728
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1501710710
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9781501710704
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9781501710711
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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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."
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Abstract
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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 ...
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Subject
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English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Fertility, Human, in literature.
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Malthusianism.
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Population in literature.
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English fiction.
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Fertility, Human, in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Malthusianism.
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Population in literature.
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Dewey Classification
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823/.809353
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LC Classification
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PR868.P683S74 2018
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