The social life of fluids
Subtitle: blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel
By: Jules Law
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780801449307
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : dark ecologies : A tale of two cities and "The cow with the iron tail"; title: Disavowing milk : psychic disintegration and domestic reintegration in Dickens's Dombey and son; title: A river runs through him : Our mutual friend and the embankment of the Thames; title: Perilous reversals : fluid exchange in George Eliot's early works; title: Merging with others : destiny and flow in Daniel Deronda; title: Tempted by the milk of another : the fantasy of limited circulation in Esther Waters; title: Ever-widening circulations : Dracula and the fear of management.