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Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture - Body, Commodity, Text
Erin O'Connor
Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture - Body, Commodity, Text
Erin O'Connor
Analyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, the author explores the industrial logic of disease.
288 pages, 50 b&w photographs
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 1, 2000 |
ISBN13 | 9780822326168 |
Publishers | Duke University Press |
Pages | 277 |
Dimensions | 229 × 146 × 23 mm · 448 g |