03798nam 2200601 a 450 991045714610332120200520144314.00-8014-6238-X10.7591/9780801462382(CKB)2550000000035262(OCoLC)732957111(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468026(SSID)ssj0000541374(PQKBManifestationID)11340853(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541374(PQKBWorkID)10498788(PQKB)10819472(MiAaPQ)EBC3138147(MdBmJHUP)muse28842(DE-B1597)515223(OCoLC)1091701727(DE-B1597)9780801462382(Au-PeEL)EBL3138147(CaPaEBR)ebr10468026(EXLCZ)99255000000003526220100527d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe social life of fluids[electronic resource] blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel /Jules LawIthaca Cornell University Press20101 online resource (216 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-4930-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 circulation of bodily fluids. In The Social Life of Fluids Jules Law traces the fantasies of power and anxieties of identity precipitated by these developments as they found their way into the plotting and rhetoric of the Victorian novel. Analyzing the expression of scientific understanding and the technological manipulation of fluids-blood, breast milk, and water-in six Victorian novels (by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Moore, and Bram Stoker), Law traces the growing anxiety about fluids in Victorian culture from the beginning of the sanitarian movement in the 1830's through the 1890's. Fluids, he finds, came to be regarded as the most alienable aspect of an otherwise inalienable human body, and, paradoxically, as the least rational element of an increasingly rationalized environment. Drawing on literary and feminist theory, social history, and the history of science and medicine, Law shows how fluids came to be represented as prosthetic extensions of identity, exposing them to contested claims of kinship and community and linking them inextricably to public spaces and public debates.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismBody fluids in literatureElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.Body fluids in literature.823/.8093561Law Jules David1957-1026356MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457146103321The social life of fluids2441230UNINA04298nam 2200721 a 450 991077967010332120200520144314.01-5017-4851-30-8014-6778-00-8014-6779-910.7591/9780801467790(CKB)2550000001038595(OCoLC)828736639(CaPaEBR)ebrary10650186(SSID)ssj0000819719(PQKBManifestationID)11436088(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819719(PQKBWorkID)10857050(PQKB)11723162(StDuBDS)EDZ0001503907(MiAaPQ)EBC3138427(OCoLC)966765219(MdBmJHUP)muse51848(DE-B1597)478285(OCoLC)979756134(DE-B1597)9780801467790(Au-PeEL)EBL3138427(CaPaEBR)ebr10650186(CaONFJC)MIL681715(EXLCZ)99255000000103859520120621d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrEmperor of the world[electronic resource] Charlemagne and the construction of imperial authority, 800-1229 /Anne A. LatowskyIthaca Cornell University Press20131 online resource (305 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-50433-4 0-8014-5148-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Carolingian origins -- Relics from the East -- Benzo of Alba's parallel signs -- In praise of Frederick Barbarossa -- The Emperor's Charlemagne -- "Charlemagne and the East" in France.Charlemagne never traveled farther east than Italy, but by the mid-tenth century a story had begun to circulate about the friendly alliances that the emperor had forged while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople. This story gained wide currency throughout the Middle Ages, appearing frequently in chronicles, histories, imperial decrees, and hagiographies-even in stained-glass windows and vernacular verse and prose. In Emperor of the World, Anne A. Latowsky traces the curious history of this myth, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages.The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the prophecy of the Last Roman Emperor. Charlemagne's apocryphal journey to the East increasingly resembled the eschatological final journey of the Last Emperor, who was expected to end his reign in Jerusalem after reuniting the Roman Empire prior to the Last Judgment. Instead of relinquishing his imperial dignity and handing the rule of a united Christendom over to God as predicted, this Charlemagne returns to the West to commence his reign. Latowsky finds that the writers who incorporated this legend did so to support, or in certain cases to criticize, the imperial pretentions of the regimes under which they wrote. New versions of the myth would resurface at times of transition and during periods marked by strong assertions of Roman-style imperial authority and conflict with the papacy, most notably during the reigns of Henry IV and Frederick Barbarossa. Latowsky removes Charlemagne's encounters with the East from their long-presumed Crusading context and shows how a story that began as a rhetorical commonplace of imperial praise evolved over the centuries as an expression of Christian Roman universalism.Literature, MedievalHistory and criticismAuthority in literatureEast and West in literatureEast and WestHistoryTo 1500Holy Roman EmpireKings and rulersLiterature, MedievalHistory and criticism.Authority in literature.East and West in literature.East and WestHistory809/.93351Latowsky Anne Austin1528508MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779670103321Emperor of the world3772153UNINA