| Description |
x, 255 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864 -- 2. The Production of Abstract Space -- 3. Curing the Social Body in 1832: James Phillips Kay and the Irish in Manchester -- 4. Anatomical Realism and Social Investigation in Early Nineteenth-Century Manchester -- 5. Thomas Chalmers, Edwin Chadwick, and the Sublime Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Government -- 6. Domesticity and Class Formation: Chadwick's 1842: Sanitary Report -- 7. Homosociality and the Psychological: Disraeli, Gaskell, and the Condition-of-England Debate -- 8. Speculation and Virtue in Our Mutual Friend. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and index. |
| Subject |
National characteristics, British -- History -- 19th century.
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Arts, Modern -- 19th century -- Great Britain.
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Arts, British.
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
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| ISBN |
0226675238 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226675246 paper alkaline paper |
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