Making a social body : British cultural formation 1830-1864

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Making a social body : British cultural formation 1830-1864

Mary Poovey

University of Chicago Press, 1995

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and index

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: cloth ISBN 9780226675237

内容説明

This study examines one of the conditions that made the development of a mass culture in Victorian Britain possible: the representation of the population as an aggregate - a social body. Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, the author analyzes the organization of knowledge during this period and explores its role in the emergence of the idea of the social body. The text illuminates the ways literary genres, such as the novel, and innovations in social thought, such as statistical thinking and anatomical realism, helped separate social concerns from the political and economic domains. The author then discusses the influence of the social body concept on Victorian ideas about the role of the state, examining writings by James Phillips Kay, Thomas Chalmers and Edwin Chadwick on regulating the poor. Analyzing the conflict between Kay's idea of the social body and Babbage's image of the social machine, she considers the implications of both models for the place of Victorian women. Poovey's readings of Disraeli's "Coningsby", Gaskell's "Mary Barton", and Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend" show that the novel as a genre exposed the role gender played in contemporary discussions of poverty and wealth. The study argues that gender, race and class should be considered in the context of broader concerns such as how social authority is distributed, how institutions formalize knowledge and how truth is defined.

目次

Acknowledgments 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 Notes Bibliography Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226675244

内容説明

This study examines one of the conditions that made the development of a mass culture in Victorian Britain possible: the representation of the population as an aggregate - a social body. Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, the author analyzes the organization of knowledge during this period and explores its role in the emergence of the idea of the social body. The text illuminates the ways literary genres, such as the novel, and innovations in social thought, such as statistical thinking and anatomical realism, helped separate social concerns from the political and economic domains. The author then discusses the influence of the social body concept on Victorian ideas about the role of the state, examining writings by James Phillips Kay, Thomas Chalmers and Edwin Chadwick on regulating the poor. Analyzing the conflict between Kay's idea of the social body and Babbage's image of the social machine, she considers the implications of both models for the place of Victorian women. Poovey's readings of Disraeli's "Coningsby", Gaskell's "Mary Barton", and Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend" show that the novel as a genre exposed the role gender played in contemporary discussions of poverty and wealth. The study argues that gender, race and class should be considered in the context of broader concerns such as how social authority is distributed, how institutions formalize knowledge and how truth is defined.

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