Download or read book Pleasures of Benthamism written by Kathleen Blake and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines traditions of Utilitarianism and political economy in Victorian literature and culture through the writings of Bentham, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, and others.