Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864

by Mary Poovey

Book Overview

With much recent work in Victorian studies focused on gender and class differences, the homogenizing features of 19th-century culture have received relatively little attention. In Making a Social Body, Mary Poovey examines one of the conditions that made the development of a mass culture in Victorian Britain possible: the representation of the population as an aggregate--a social body. Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, she...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226675246
• ISBN13: 9780226675244
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"