Anonymous connections : the body and narratives of the social in Victorian Britain /

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 spat...

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Hlavní autor: Choi, Tina Young (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press [2015]
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.8296857
Obsah:
  • Introduction
  • At risk: Statistical participation and the Victorian city
  • Miasmatic texts: The body's excesses and effects
  • Contagious narratives: Distant causality and the emergence of multiplot
  • Radical solutions, conservative systems: Narratives of circulation and closure
  • Recollections of the body: Anatomical science and fictions of wholeness
  • Visions global and microbial: Germ theory and empire
  • Conclusion.