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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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press
[2015]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.8296857 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.