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Dorothea Dreams of Drains
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When Dorothea Brooke imagines a utopian community, she imagines draining the land. This concern with irrigation becomes a point of confluence for otherwise divergent theories of political economy and property within the nineteenth century. Drainage reflects a common horror of uselessness—whether wasted lands or the quagmires of scholarship. Yet this confluence is not totalizing. Natural history offers a critique of drainage, and Eliot's own work is marked by two contrary theories of drainage: circulation that adds value or circulation that subtracts value. These concerns then become a point for considering the primary metaphor of literary studies: the field.
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Title: Dorothea Dreams of Drains
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Abstract
When Dorothea Brooke imagines a utopian community, she imagines draining the land.
This concern with irrigation becomes a point of confluence for otherwise divergent theories of political economy and property within the nineteenth century.
Drainage reflects a common horror of uselessness—whether wasted lands or the quagmires of scholarship.
Yet this confluence is not totalizing.
Natural history offers a critique of drainage, and Eliot's own work is marked by two contrary theories of drainage: circulation that adds value or circulation that subtracts value.
These concerns then become a point for considering the primary metaphor of literary studies: the field.
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