The Masses Are Revolting : : Victorian Culture and the Political Aesthetics of Disgust /

The Masses Are Revolting : : Victorian Culture and the Political Aesthetics of Disgust / / Zachary Samalin.

The Masses Are Revolting reconstructs a pivotal era in the history of affect and emotion, delving into an archive of nineteenth-century disgust to show how this negative emotional reaction came to play an outsized, volatile part in the emergence of modern British society. Attending to the emotion�...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Samalin, Zachary,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.) :; 23 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Of Origins and Orifices
  • Introduction: Of Origins and Orifices
  • 1. The Odor of Things
  • 2. Realism and Repulsion
  • Part II. Primal Scenes, Human Sciences
  • 3. Darwin’s Vomit
  • 4. The Masses Are Revolting; or, The Birth of Social Theory from the Spirit of Disgust
  • Part III. The Disenchantment of Disgust
  • 5. The Age of Obscenity
  • Conclusion: Horizons of Expectoration
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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