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Tina Young Choi - Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain - 9780472119721 - V9780472119721
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Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain

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Description for Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.

Anonymous Connections asks how the Victorians understood the ethical, epistemological, and biological implications of social belonging and participation. Specifically, Tina Choi considers the ways nineteenth-century journalists, novelists, medical writers, and social reformers took advantage of spatial frames-of-reference in a social landscape transforming due to intense urbanization and expansion. New modes of transportation, shifting urban demographics, and the threat of epidemics emerged during this period as anonymous and involuntary forms of contact between unseen multitudes. While previous work on the early Victorian social body have tended to describe the nineteenth-century social sphere in static political and class terms, Choi’s work charts ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119721
SKU
V9780472119721
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About Tina Young Choi
Tina Young Choi is Associate Professor of English and of the Graduate Faculty in Science and Technology Studies at York University, Toronto.

Reviews for Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain
“Choi’s work makes a unique and original point: complex, multi-plot Victorian narratives and notions of the social order fed and were fed by one another. . . . This book will be an important one for scholars of Victorian literature and culture.” —Laura Otis, Emory University

Goodreads reviews for Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain


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