The Social Life of Fluids: Blood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel

by Jules Law

British Victorians were obsessed with fluids--with their scarcity and with their omnipresence. By the mid-nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of citizens regularly petitioned the government to provide running water and adequate sewerage, while scientists and journalists fretted over the circulation of bodily fluids. In The Social Life of Fluids Jules Law traces the fantasies of power and anxieties of identity precipitated by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801449308
• ISBN13: 9780801449307
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher