Research Catalog

Title

The citizen's body : desire, health, and the social in Victorian England / Pamela K. Gilbert.

Author

Gilbert, Pamela K.

Publication

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Description

viii, 194 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The management of the social body through discourses of health became the principal means of negotiating new questions of citizenship and the Condition of England. The Citizen's Body traces the construction of citizenship through the figure of the healthy body, in parliamentary debates on the franchise, in sanitary and housing publications, and in novels. The rhetoric of the healthy body as the ground of civic participation permeated the discourse of the novel, as shown in the work of Dickens, Oliphant, Disraeli, Eliot, and Gaskell."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Public health > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century
• Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901
• Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and index.

Contents

Sect. I. Citizenship and the social body -- 1. Citizenship and fitness -- 2. Citizenship, class, and pauperism -- 3. Disease, the social body, and fitness -- Sect. II. Producing the public : public health in private spaces -- 4. The public, the private, and the social -- 5. Housing the social body -- 6. Octavia Hill : housing as social work -- Sect. III. Narrating the citizen of the social -- 7. The political novel and the social -- 8. The social novel's leaky bodies -- 9. Felix Holt : the desiring body in the later political novel -- Afterword : liberalism and its discontents.

ISBN

• 9780814210529 (alk. paper)
• 081421052X (alk. paper)
• 9780814291320 (CD-ROM)
• 0814291325 (CD-ROM)

LCCN

2007006264

OCLC

• OCM85484908
• 85484908
• SCSB-13972575

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries