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

Title
The social life of fluids : blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel / Jules Law.
Author
Law, Jules David, 1957-
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.

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Description
xii, 204 p.; 25 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 10-6317
ISBN
  • 9780801449307 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801449308 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010022622
OCLC
617604060
Author
Law, Jules David, 1957-
Title
The social life of fluids : blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel / Jules Law.
Imprint
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 10-6317
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