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This paper explores how marginalist economics defines and inevitably constrains Victorian sensation fiction's content and composition. I argue that economic intuition implies that sensationalist heroes and antagonists, writers and readers all pursued a fundamental, "rational" aim: the attainment of pleasure.
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- Fischer, Brett Andrew (Author)
- Bivona, Daniel (Thesis director)
- Looser, Devoney (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor)
- Economics Program in CLAS (Contributor)
- School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor)
- Department of English (Contributor)
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2014-12
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