{"product_id":"the-feeling-of-letting-die-jennifer-maclure-9780814258903","title":"The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Feeling of Letting Die\u003c\/i\u003e, Jennifer MacLure explores how Victorian novels depict the feelings that both fuel and are produced by an economic system that lets some people die in service of the free market. MacLure argues that Victorian authors present capitalism's death function as a sticking point, a series of contradictions, and a problem to solve as characters grapple with systems that allow, demand, and cause the deaths of their less fortunate fellows. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUtilizing Achille Mbembe's theorization of necropolitics, MacLure uses the term \"necroeconomics,\" positioning Victorian authors--even those who were deeply committed to liberal capitalism--as hyperaware of capitalism's death function. Examining both canonical and lesser-known works by Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, William Morris, and George Eliot, \u003ci\u003eThe Feeling of Letting Die\u003c\/i\u003e shows capitalism as not straightforwardly imposed via economic policy but instead as a system functioning through the emotions and desires of the human beings who enact it. In doing so, MacLure reveals how emotion functions as both the legitimating epistemic mode of capitalism and its most salient threat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Maclure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814258905\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814258903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Jennifer Maclure","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48153119752447,"sku":"9780814258903","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_595dd23b-57af-4174-abfb-523a223f2aa2.jpg?v=1770781418","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-feeling-of-letting-die-jennifer-maclure-9780814258903","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}