The social life of fluids : blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel / by Law, Jules David, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dark ecologies : A tale of two cities and "The cow with the iron tail" -- Disavowing milk : psychic disintegration and domestic reintegration in Dickens's Dombey and son -- A river runs through him : Our mutual friend and the embankment of the Thames -- Perilous reversals : fluid exchange in George Eliot's early works -- Merging with others : destiny and flow in Daniel Deronda -- Tempted by the milk of another : the fantasy of limited circulation in Esther Waters -- Ever-widening circulations : Dracula and the fear of management.…”
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Towards the ethics of form in fiction : narratives of cultural remission / by Toker, Leona

Table of Contents: “…Carnival and crisis in three stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Oppositionality in Fielding's Tom Jones -- Carnival diminished : the secret springs of Tristram Shandy -- Non-carnivalesque oppositionality : Jane Austen and the golden mean -- Checks and balances : Charles Dickens's A tale of two cities -- Across the boundaries of the self : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Carnival reversals : Thomas Hardy's The mayor of Casterbridge -- Morphology of crisis : non-contact measurement of self in Conrad's "The secret sharer" -- Carnivalization : throwaways in Joyce's Ulysses -- Discourse of Lent : Kafka's "A hunger artist" and Shalamov's "The artist of the spade."…”
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Towards the ethics of form in fiction : narratives of cultural remission / by Toker, Leona

Table of Contents: “…Carnival and crisis in three stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Oppositionality in Fielding's Tom Jones -- Carnival diminished : the secret springs of Tristram Shandy -- Non-carnivalesque oppositionality : Jane Austen and the golden mean -- Checks and balances : Charles Dickens's A tale of two cities -- Across the boundaries of self : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Carnival reversals : Thomas Hardy's The mayor of Casterbridge -- Morphology of the test : non-contact measurement of self in Conrad's "The secret sharer" -- Carnivalization : throwaways in Joyce's Ulysses -- Caesura -- "The artist of the spade" -- Discourse of Lent : Kafka's "A hunger artist" and Shalamov's "The artist of the spade".…”