TY  - BOOK
AU  - Law,Jules David
TI  - The Social Life of Fluids: Blood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel
SN  - 9780801462382
AV  - PR878.B62 -- L38 2010eb 
U1  - 823/.8093561 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Moore, George, -- 1852-1933 -- Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Stoker, Bram, -- 1847-1912. -- Dracula
KW  - English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Body fluids in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FLUIDS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Dark Ecologies: A Tale of Two Cities and "The Cow With the Iron Tail -- PART ONE: MILK AND WATER: THE BODY AND SOCIAL SPACE IN DICKENS -- 1. Disavowing Milk: Psychic Disintegration and Domestic Reintegration in Dickens's Dombey and Son -- 2. A River Runs through Him: Our Mutual Friend and the Embankment of the Thames -- PART TWO: DRIVING HUMAN DESTINY: GEORGE ELIOT AND THE PROBLEMATICS OF FLOW -- 3. Perilous Reversals: Fluid Exchange in George Eliot's Early Works -- 4. Merging With Others: Destiny and Flow in Daniel Deronda -- PART THREE: SOLDIERS AND MOTHERS: NURSING THE EMPIRE IN GEORGE MOORE'S ESTHER WATERS AND BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA -- 5. Tempted by the Milk of Another: The Fantasy of Limited Circulation in Esther Waters -- 6. Ever-Widening Circulations: Dracula and the Fear of Management -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
N2  - Analyzing the expression of scientific understanding and the technological manipulation of fluids--blood, breast milk, and water--in Victorian novels, Law traces the culture's growing anxiety about fluids from the 1830s through the 1890s
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