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Raw Material : Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture /

Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O'Con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: O'Connor, Erin, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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