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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. Cover -- Contents -- 1. Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy: The Case of Bleak House -- 2. Pleasures of Benthamism-Utility, or, 'People mutht be amuthed': Bentham and Hard Times -- 3. Pains-'Work while it is called Today': Utility, Political Economy, Carlyle, and Trollope -- 4. Pains-Capital versus the Gift in The Mill on the Floss -- 5. 'On Liberty' and Laissez-faire -- 6. Time and the Textile Industry: Gaskell and Tagore -- 7. Utilitarian Political Economy and Empire: Mill as Liberal Imperialist -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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