Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780521022071
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Sociology; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Gender Studies; Women Authors; English fiction--19th century--History and cr; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Women Authors; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science-Gender Studies
First sentence: The police and soap ... were the antithesis of the crime and disease which supposedly lurked in the slums ... [but policing is effected through the gaze of the bourgeoisie, which is then implicated in its object:]