..., the novel gestures at an understanding of the home as a space that partakes of one of the major structures of capitalist modernity—repetition as dehumanizing, dysfunctional, and exploitative. Charlotte Brontë Shirley domestic sphere capitalism automation © 2024 by The Regents of the University...

... of and meditation on economic speculation. It dwells upon the ways in which a transition from an agrarian economy into finance capitalism impacts the body. Where many accounts of Sheppard Lee emphasize embodiment as the central issue of the novel, this essay instead insists on disembodiment, demonstrating how...