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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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