Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England s relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O Connor explores the industrial logic of disease, the dynamic that coupled pathology and production in Victorian thinking about cultural processes in general, and about disease in particular.
O Connor focuses on how four particularly troubling physical conditions were represented in a variety of...

Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England s relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O Connor explores the industrial logic of disease, the dynamic that coupled pathology and production in Victorian thinking about cultural processes in general, and about disease in particular.
O Connor focuses on how four particularly troubling physical conditions were represented in a variety of...