Erin O'Connor

Raw Material

Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, the author explores the industrial logic of disease.

Produktdetails

• Body, Commodity, Text
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326168
• ISBN-10: 0822326167
• Artikelnr.: 22239635

Autorenporträt

Erin O’Connor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
ONE/ Asiatic Cholera and the Raw Material of Race 21
TWO/ Breast Reductions 60
THREE/ Fractions of Men: Engendering Amputation 102
FOUR/ Monsters. Materials, Methods 148
AFTERWORD/ The Promises of Monsters, or, A Manifesto for Academic Futures
209
Notes 219
Works Cited 251
Index 267