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Author Choi, Tina Young, author

Title Anonymous connections : the body and narratives of the social in Victorian Britain / Tina Young Choi
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
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Contents Introduction -- At risk: Statistical participation and the Victorian city -- Miasmatic texts: The body's excesses and effects -- Contagious narratives: Distant causality and the emergence of multiplot -- Radical solutions, conservative systems: Narratives of circulation and closure -- Recollections of the body: Anatomical science and fictions of wholeness -- Visions global and microbial: Germ theory and empire -- Conclusion
Summary 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 spatial frames-of-reference in a social landscape transforming due to intense urbanization and expansion. New modes of transportation, shifting urban demographics, and the threat of epidemics emerged during this period as anonymous and involuntary forms of contact between unseen multitudes. While previous work on the early Victorian social body have tended to describe the nineteenth-century social sphere in static political and class terms, Chois work charts new critical terrain, redirecting attention to the productive--and unpredictable--spaces between individual bodies as well as to the new narrative forms that emerged to represent them. Anonymous Connections makes a significant contribution to scholarship on nineteenth-century literature and British cultural and medical history while offering a timely examination of the historical forebears to modern concerns about the cultural and political impact of globalization.-- Publisher website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-179) and index
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Subject Human body in literature.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
City and town life -- England -- 19th century -- In literature
Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History
Medicine in literature.
Human Body
Social Conditions -- history
Medicine in Literature
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Medicine in literature
City and town life in literature
English literature
Human body in literature
Literature and medicine
Literature and society
Manners and customs
Gemeinschaft
Öffentlichkeit
Literatur
Interaktion
Human body in literature.
Diseases in literature.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056952
Subject England
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Public health -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020707115
ISBN 0472121537
9780472121533