The Social Life of Fluids : : Blood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel / / Jules David Law.
British Victorians were obsessed with fluids—with their scarcity and with their omnipresence. By the mid-nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of citizens regularly petitioned the government to provide running water and adequate sewerage, while scientists and journalists fretted over the circula...
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Law, Jules David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Social Life of Fluids : Blood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel / Jules David Law. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2011 1 online resource (216 p.) : 2 line drawings text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: Dark Ecologies: A Tale of Two Cities and "The Cow With the Iron Tail" -- PART ONE: MILK AND WATER: THE BODY AND SOCIAL SPACE IN DICKENS -- 1. Disavowing Milk: Psychic Disintegration and Domestic Reintegration in Dickens's 1 Dombey and Son -- 2. A River Runs through Him: Our Mutual Friend and the Embankment of the Thames -- PART TWO : DRIVING HUMAN DESTINY: GEORGE ELIOT AND THE PROBLEMATICS OF FLOW -- 3. Perilous Reversals: Fluid Exchange in George Eliot's Early Works -- 4. Merging With Others: Destiny and Flow in Daniel Deronda -- PART THREE: SOLDIERS AND MOTHERS: NURSING THE EMPIRE IN GEORGE MOORE'S ESTHER WATERS AND BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA -- 5. Tempted by the Milk of Another: The Fantasy of Limited Circulation in Esther Waters -- 6. Ever-Widening Circulations: Dracula and the Fear of Management -- Afterword -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star British Victorians were obsessed with fluids—with their scarcity and with their omnipresence. By the mid-nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of citizens regularly petitioned the government to provide running water and adequate sewerage, while scientists and journalists fretted over the circulation of bodily fluids. In The Social Life of Fluids Jules Law traces the fantasies of power and anxieties of identity precipitated by these developments as they found their way into the plotting and rhetoric of the Victorian novel.Analyzing the expression of scientific understanding and the technological manipulation of fluids—blood, breast milk, and water—in six Victorian novels (by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Moore, and Bram Stoker), Law traces the growing anxiety about fluids in Victorian culture from the beginning of the sanitarian movement in the 1830s through the 1890s. Fluids, he finds, came to be regarded as the most alienable aspect of an otherwise inalienable human body, and, paradoxically, as the least rational element of an increasingly rationalized environment. Drawing on literary and feminist theory, social history, and the history of science and medicine, Law shows how fluids came to be represented as prosthetic extensions of identity, exposing them to contested claims of kinship and community and linking them inextricably to public spaces and public debates. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Body fluids in literature. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Literary Studies. Medicine & Medical Issues. West European History. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801462382 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801462382 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801462382/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: Dark Ecologies: A Tale of Two Cities and "The Cow With the Iron Tail" -- PART ONE: MILK AND WATER: THE BODY AND SOCIAL SPACE IN DICKENS -- 1. Disavowing Milk: Psychic Disintegration and Domestic Reintegration in Dickens's 1 Dombey and Son -- 2. A River Runs through Him: Our Mutual Friend and the Embankment of the Thames -- PART TWO : DRIVING HUMAN DESTINY: GEORGE ELIOT AND THE PROBLEMATICS OF FLOW -- 3. Perilous Reversals: Fluid Exchange in George Eliot's Early Works -- 4. Merging With Others: Destiny and Flow in Daniel Deronda -- PART THREE: SOLDIERS AND MOTHERS: NURSING THE EMPIRE IN GEORGE MOORE'S ESTHER WATERS AND BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA -- 5. Tempted by the Milk of Another: The Fantasy of Limited Circulation in Esther Waters -- 6. Ever-Widening Circulations: Dracula and the Fear of Management -- Afterword -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: Dark Ecologies: A Tale of Two Cities and "The Cow With the Iron Tail" -- PART ONE: MILK AND WATER: THE BODY AND SOCIAL SPACE IN DICKENS -- 1. Disavowing Milk: Psychic Disintegration and Domestic Reintegration in Dickens's 1 Dombey and Son -- 2. A River Runs through Him: Our Mutual Friend and the Embankment of the Thames -- PART TWO : DRIVING HUMAN DESTINY: GEORGE ELIOT AND THE PROBLEMATICS OF FLOW -- 3. Perilous Reversals: Fluid Exchange in George Eliot's Early Works -- 4. Merging With Others: Destiny and Flow in Daniel Deronda -- PART THREE: SOLDIERS AND MOTHERS: NURSING THE EMPIRE IN GEORGE MOORE'S ESTHER WATERS AND BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA -- 5. Tempted by the Milk of Another: The Fantasy of Limited Circulation in Esther Waters -- 6. Ever-Widening Circulations: Dracula and the Fear of Management -- Afterword -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX |
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