LEADER 03798nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910457146103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6238-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462382 035 $a(CKB)2550000000035262 035 $a(OCoLC)732957111 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468026 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541374 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11340853 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541374 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10498788 035 $a(PQKB)10819472 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138147 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28842 035 $a(DE-B1597)515223 035 $a(OCoLC)1091701727 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462382 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138147 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468026 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000035262 100 $a20100527d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe social life of fluids$b[electronic resource] $eblood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel /$fJules Law 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4930-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aBritish 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBody fluids in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBody fluids in literature. 676 $a823/.8093561 700 $aLaw$b Jules David$f1957-$01026356 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457146103321 996 $aThe social life of fluids$92441230 997 $aUNINA