Fluid performances: The circulation of milk in late-nineteenth century fiction and culture
(2021)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2021). Fluid performances: The circulation of milk in late-nineteenth century fiction and culture. In Trangressive Appetites: Deviant Food Practices in Victorian Literature and Culture (211-226). Milano: Mimesis/Anglosophia
This chapter analyses how the social circulation of milk is performed in realist-naturalist writings of the late nineteenth century. Milk becomes an unalienable property of the nurturing body, a circulating property of instrumental modernity and, at... Read More about Fluid performances: The circulation of milk in late-nineteenth century fiction and culture.