Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture

by Erin O'Connor

Book Overview

Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O'Connor explores "the industrial logic of disease," the dynamic that coupled pathology and production in Victorian thinking about cultural processes in general,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326167
• ISBN13: 9780822326168
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"