{"product_id":"raw-material-9780822326083","title":"Raw Material","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnalyses 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRaw Material \u003c\/i\u003eadds much to the existing literature on the Victorians. With 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 \u003ci\u003eCreating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eRaw Material\u003c\/i\u003e will make a significant contribution to Victorian studies, to work on the body, and to cultural studies.”—Mary Ann O'Farrell, author of \u003ci\u003eTelling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eMaking Sex : Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e ONE\/ Asiatic Cholera and the Raw Material of Race 21\u003cbr\u003e TWO\/ Breast Reductions 60\u003cbr\u003e THREE\/ Fractions of Men: Engendering Amputation 102\u003cbr\u003e FOUR\/ Monsters. Materials, Methods 148\u003cbr\u003e AFTERWORD\/ The Promises of Monsters, or, A Manifesto for Academic Futures 209\u003cbr\u003e Notes 219\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 251\u003cbr\u003e Index 267","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406026318167,"sku":"9780822326083","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822326083.jpg?v=1730494287","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/raw-material-9780822326083","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}