Raw Material by Erin O'connor

Raw Material by 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.

“Raw Material adds much to the existing literature on the VictoriansWith its enlightening case studies and its author’s solid understanding of the state of medical art in the latter half of the nineteenth century, this is a first-rate piece of work.”-Sander L. Gilman, author of Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery “Industry makes it possible to understand the Victorian body, according to Erin O'Connor, as so much raw material. O'Connor's mind is a pleasure to watch at work and Raw Material will make a significant contribution to Victorian studies, to work on the body, and to cultural studies.”-Mary Ann O'Farrell, author of Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush “The body in distress and deformation-black from cholera, excrescent from breast cancer, monstrous, and repaired through prosthesis-offers a prism through which O’Connor refracts the crisis of the self in the world’s first industrial society. This is a complex, empirically rich, reflective and vigorously argued book that will be welcomed by literary critics, by historians of the body and of the nineteenth century, and by anyone engaged with cultural theory.”-Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex : Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

Erin O’Connor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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ISBN 13	9780822326083
ISBN 10	0822326086
Title	Raw Material
Author	Erin O'connor
Series	Body Commodity Text
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2000-12-01
Number of pages	288
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