The social life of fluids blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel /

Main Author: Law, Jules David, 1957-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10468026
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.