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b'The ways in which women are portrayed in Victorian novels can provide importantinsights into how people of the day thought about political economy, and viceversa. In Economic Woman, Deanna K. Kreisel innovatively shows how images of feminized sexuality in novels by GeorgeEliot and Thomas Hardy reflected widespread contemporary anxieties about thegrowth of capitalism. Economic Woman is the first book toaddress directly the links between classical political economy and gender inthe novel. Examining key works by Eliot and Hardy, including The Mill on theFloss and Tess of thedUrbervilles, Kreisel investigates the meaning of two femalerepresentations: the economic woman, who embodies idealized sexual restraintand wise domestic management, and the degraded prostitute, characterized bysexual excess and economic turmoil. Kreisel effectively integrates economicthought with literary analysis to contribute to an ongoing and lively scholarlydiscussion.'