The Social Life of Fluids : Blood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Law, Jules David, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Moore, George, > 1852-1933.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Criticism and interpretation.
Moore, George, > 1852-1933 > Criticism and interpretation.
Stoker, Bram, > 1847-1912. > Dracula.
Dracula (Stoker, Bram)
Körperflüssigkeit.
Motiv.
Englisch.
Literatur.
Roman > englischer > Motiv > Körperflüssigkeit.
Körperflüssigkeit > Motiv > Roman > englischer.
English fiction.
Body fluids in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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