The Social Life of Fluids: Blood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel.
Language: English
Published by Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,, 2010
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235 x 150 mm. xii, 204 pp. [ISBN: 978-0801449307] Clothbound. Ex-library copy with removed labels from front free endpaper, and ne remaining label to recto of title page. In all other respects, a very good bright copy free from ownership inscriptions and all external library markings in like dustwrapper.
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- Title
- The Social Life of Fluids: Blood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel.
- Author
- LAW, JULES DAVID.
- Publisher
- Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801449308
- ISBN 13
- 9780801449307
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- English Literature: Victorian
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.
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About the Author
Jules Law is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Charles Deering McCormick is Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Empiricism: Language and Perception from Locke to I. A. Richards.
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