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Making a social body : British cultural formation, 1830-1864 / Mary Poovey.
- Title
- Making a social body : British cultural formation, 1830-1864 / Mary Poovey.
- Author
- Poovey, Mary
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DA533 .P66 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 255 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Andrae, A
- 1800-1901
- National characteristics, British > History > 19th century
- Arts, Modern > 19th century > Great Britain
- Arts, British
- Social Conditions > history
- Cultural Evolution > history
- Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century
- Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century
- Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864 -- 2. The Production of Abstract Space -- 3. Curing the Social Body in 1832: James Phillips Kay and the Irish in Manchester -- 4. Anatomical Realism and Social Investigation in Early Nineteenth-Century Manchester -- 5. Thomas Chalmers, Edwin Chadwick, and the Sublime Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Government -- 6. Domesticity and Class Formation: Chadwick's 1842: Sanitary Report -- 7. Homosociality and the Psychological: Disraeli, Gaskell, and the Condition-of-England Debate -- 8. Speculation and Virtue in Our Mutual Friend.
- ISBN
- 0226675246 (paper : alk. paper)
- 0226675238 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^95004153^
- OCLC
- 32051431
- SCSB-12799451
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library