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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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.