 | The Social Life of Fluids: Blood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Body fluids in literature; Dickens Charles 1812–1870 -- Criticism and interpretation; Eliot George 1819–1880 -- Criticism and interpretation; Moore George 1852–1933 -- Criticism and interpret; Analyzing the expression of scientific understanding and the technological manipulation of fluids--blood, breast milk, and water--in Victorian novels, Law traces the culture's growing anxiety about fluids from the 1830s through the 1890s. Jules Law is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Charles Deering McCormick is Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Empiricism: Language and Perception from Locke to I. A. Richards . |
