Eleanor Courtemanche teaches Victorian literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She writes about fictions of capitalism, including a book titled The “Invisible Hand” and British Literature, 1818–1860: Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), essays about the Fabian Socialists and Victorian utopias, and the forthcoming monograph Fragile Capitalism: The Long Afterlife of Victorian Crisis.
Eleanor Courtemanche
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Internet Dystopias after Trump
Fitting chaos into form is what genre was made for. But what does it mean for our literature—let alone our society—when reality suddenly turns wolfishly against …
Internet Dystopias after Trump
Fitting chaos into form is what genre was made for. But what does it mean for our literature—let alone our society—when reality suddenly turns wolfishly against …
Going to Playland?
“I thought we were going to Playland. Are you coming?” This may sound like fun, but it’s not Tinkerbell who’s asking. It’s Glen’s random girlfriend Paula, and she just wants some weed. The future is a party, thrown by the Baby Boomers, to which our main characters are probably not invited. This episode, like the […]
