TY - GEN T1 - Anonymous connections : the body and narratives of the social in Victorian Britain A1 - Choi, Tina Young LA - English PP - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn936547792 AB - Anonymous Connections asks how the Victorians understood the ethical, epistemological, and biological implications of social belonging and participation. Specifically, Tina Choi considers the ways nineteenth-century journalists, novelists, medical writers, and social reformers took advantage of spatial frames-of-reference in a social landscape transforming due to intense urbanization and expansion. New modes of transportation, shifting urban demographics, and the threat of epidemics emerged during this period as anonymous and involuntary forms of contact between unseen multitudes. While previous work on the early Victorian social body have tended to describe the nineteenth-century social sphere in static political and class terms, Chois work charts new critical terrain, redirecting attention to the productive--and unpredictable--spaces between individual bodies as well as to the new narrative forms that emerged to represent them. Anonymous Connections makes a significant contribution to scholarship on nineteenth-century literature and British cultural and medical history while offering a timely examination of the historical forebears to modern concerns about the cultural and political impact of globalization.-- CN - PR464 SN - 0472121537 SN - 9780472121533 SN - 0472119729 SN - 9780472119721 KW - Human body in literature. KW - English literature : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - Literature and society : Great Britain : History : 19th century. KW - City and town life : England : 19th century : In literature. KW - Literature and medicine : Great Britain : History. KW - Great Britain : Social life and customs : 19th century. KW - Medicine in literature. KW - Human Body KW - Social Conditions : history KW - Medicine in Literature KW - Corps humain dans la littérature. KW - Littérature anglaise : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature et société : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Vie urbaine : Angleterre : 19e siècle : Dans la littérature. KW - Littérature et médecine : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire. KW - Grande-Bretagne : Mœurs et coutumes : 19e siècle. KW - Médecine dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - Medicine in literature KW - City and town life in literature KW - English literature KW - Human body in literature KW - Literature and medicine KW - Literature and society KW - Manners and customs KW - England KW - Great Britain KW - Gemeinschaft KW - Öffentlichkeit KW - Literatur KW - Interaktion KW - Großbritannien KW - Diseases in literature. KW - Public health : England : History : 19th century. KW - 1800-1899 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -