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  • Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy

    The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Why was Wollstonecraft's landmark feminist work, the Vindication of the Rights of Woman, categorised as a work of political economy when it was first published? Taking this question as a starting point, Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy gives a compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as critic of the material, moral, social, and psychological conditions of commercial modernity. Offering ... Read more

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  • Systems of Life

    Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity

    Series series Forms of Living
    Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid– eighteenth to the mid–nineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature, political economy, and the still emergent sciences of life in that historical moment, the essays collected here reopen the question of how concepts of animal, vegetable, and human life, among other biological ... Read more

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  • Staging Asylum

    'While the theatre stands up for the despised, Australian culture and decency are not yet dead.' — Thomas KeneallyThe first of its kind, this timely anthology brings together six contemporary Australian plays that offer a range of narratives and perspectives on asylum seekers. A vexed issue within the Australian community—particularly among politicians, who often use asylum seekers to further ... Read more

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  • Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850

    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    This edited collection, Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, aims to address the genealogy and formation of political economy as a knowledge project from 1720 to 1850. Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and analyses the formative moves, both epistemological and representational, which proved foundational to the ... Read more

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