Anonymous Connections : The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain /

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Anonymous Connections asks how the Victorians understood the ethical, epistemological, and biological implications of social belonging and participation. Specifically, Tina Choi considers the ways nineteenth-century journalists, novelists, medical writers, and social reformers took advantage of spat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Choi, Tina Young (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urbanization > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Group identity > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Social participation > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. At risk : statistical participation and the Victorian city
  • 2. Miasmatic texts : the body's excesses and effects
  • 3. Contagious narratives : distant causality and the emergence of multiplot
  • 4. Radical solutions, conservative systems : narratives of circulation and closure
  • 5. Recollections of the body : anatomical science and fictions of wholeness
  • 6. Visions global and microbial : germ theory and empire
  • Conclusion.

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