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The Social Life of FluidsBlood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel\nAuthor(s): Jules David Law\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801449307, 978-0801449307\nSynopsis\nBritish Victorians were obsessed with fluidswith 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 these developments as they found their way into the plotting and rhetoric of the Victorian novel.\n\n Analyzing the expression of scientific understanding and the technological manipulation of fluidsblood, breast milk, and waterin six Victorian novels (by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Moore, and Bram .
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