Making a Social Body by Mary Poovey
Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, the author analyzes the organization of knowledge during the Victorian period and explores its role in the emergence of the idea of the social body. Readings of Disraeli, Gaskell and Dickens are included in the discussion.Mary Poovey, the Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York University, just retired. A History of the Modern Fact: Issues of Knowing in the Sciences of Wealth and Society, as well as Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain, are among her many publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226675244 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226675246 |
| Title | Making a Social Body |
| Author | Mary Poovey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1995-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 266 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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