Anonymous connections : the body and narratives of the social in Victorian Britain /

Anonymous Connections asks how the Victorians understood the ethical, epistemological, and biological implications of social belonging and participation. Specifically, Tina Choi considers the ways nineteenth-century journalists, novelists, medical writers, and social reformers took advantage of spat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Choi, Tina Young
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Urbanization > Social aspects > Great Britain. Group identity > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Social participation > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. At risk : statistical participation and the Victorian city
2. Miasmatic texts : the body's excesses and effects
3. Contagious narratives : distant causality and the emergence of multiplot
4. Radical solutions, conservative systems : narratives of circulation and closure
5. Recollections of the body : anatomical science and fictions of wholeness
6. Visions global and microbial : germ theory and empire
Conclusion.