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Title: Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864 by Mary Poovey ISBN: 0-226-67524-6 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Summary: Overview of Mary Poovey's Making a Social Body
Comment: Poovey's book is a collection of seven distinct, but inter-related essays. Poovey, complicates the notion of looking at how identity categories (class, gender, ethnicity, race and so on) fractures a society, by examining how England came to think of itself as constituting a social body in the early to mid parts of the nineteenth century. Poovey suggests that the way to trace this formation, and she stresses that it is a process, is to investigate, "the incoherences generated by disaggregation [because they] often show up at the site of modern identity categories that have dominated........................15)." Raymond Williams' famous categories of residual, emergent and dominant ideologies inform Poovey's theoretical framework in looking for the "incoherences." Poovey also suggests that she is working against the Focauldian tradition of power as a monolthic force, precisely because she in invested in looking at the incoherences and fractures of identity categories. With these two frameworks helping to underpin her work, Poovey relies on both literary texts , such as Gaskell's Mary Barton and Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, as well as more strictly defined historical texts, social reform and government reports authored by people such as James Phillips Kay, Edwin Chadwick and Thomas Chalders. Making a Social Body is an important work for people who want to look at the formation of British subjects in the early Victorian period. Poovey's work is also a nice demonstration of how literary critics can, and should, move between novels, and other forms of fictional, literary production, as well as texts that are not generally concieved of as "Literature."
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Title: A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society by Mary Poovey ISBN: 0226675262 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City by Patrick Joyce ISBN: 1859845207 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Mary Poovey, Catharine R. Stimpson ISBN: 0226675300 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire by Philippa Levine ISBN: 0415944473 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought by Nikolas Rose ISBN: 0521659051 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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