The social life of fluids : blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel / Jules Law.

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.

xii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : dark ecologies : A tale of two cities and "The cow with the iron tail" -- Disavowing milk : psychic disintegration and domestic reintegration in Dickens's Dombey and son -- A river runs through him : Our mutual friend and the embankment of the Thames -- Perilous reversals : fluid exchange in George Eliot's early works -- Merging with others : destiny and flow in Daniel Deronda -- Tempted by the milk of another : the fantasy of limited circulation in Esther Waters -- Ever-widening circulations : Dracula and the fear of management.