The social life of fluids : blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel / Jules Law.

British Victorians were obsessed with fluids-with 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 circula...

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Main Author: Law, Jules David, 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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