The Citizen's Body : Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England /
"The management of the social body through discourses of health became the principal means of negotiating new questions of citizenship and the Condition of England. The Citizen's Body traces the construction of citizenship through the figure of the healthy body, in parliamentary debates on...
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Citizenship and the Social Body. Citizenship and Fitness
- Citizenship, Class, and Pauperism
- Disease, the Social Body, and Fitness
- pt. 2. Producing the Public: Public Health in Private Spaces. The Public, the Private, and the Social
- Housing the Social Body
- Octavia Hill: Housing as Social Work
- pt. 3. Narrating the Citizen of the Social. The Political Novel and the Social
- The Social Novel's Leaky Bodies
- Felix Holt: The Desiring Body in the Later Political Novel.