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The social life of fluids : blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Law, Jules David, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : dark ecologies : A tale of two cities and "The cow with the iron tail"
  • Disavowing milk : psychic disintegration and domestic reintegration in Dickens's Dombey and son
  • A river runs through him : Our mutual friend and the embankment of the Thames
  • Perilous reversals : fluid exchange in George Eliot's early works
  • Merging with others : destiny and flow in Daniel Deronda
  • Tempted by the milk of another : the fantasy of limited circulation in Esther Waters
  • Ever-widening circulations : Dracula and the fear of management.