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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Choi, Tina Young (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press [2015]
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.8296857
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.