Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. Introduction: Dark Ecologies: A Tale of Two Cities and "The Cow With the Iron Tail" 1
5. PART ONE: MILK AND WATER: THE BODY AND SOCIAL SPACE IN DICKENS
6. 1. Disavowing Milk: Psychic Disintegration and Domestic Reintegration in Dickens's 1 Dombey and Son 23
7. 2. A River Runs through Him: Our Mutual Friend and the Embankment of the Thames 46
8. PART TWO : DRIVING HUMAN DESTINY: GEORGE ELIOT AND THE PROBLEMATICS OF FLOW
9. 3. Perilous Reversals: Fluid Exchange in George Eliot's Early Works 71
10. 4. Merging With Others: Destiny and Flow in Daniel Deronda 98
11. PART THREE: SOLDIERS AND MOTHERS: NURSING THE EMPIRE IN GEORGE MOORE'S ESTHER WATERS AND BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
12. 5. Tempted by the Milk of Another: The Fantasy of Limited Circulation in Esther Waters 127
13. 6. Ever-Widening Circulations: Dracula and the Fear of Management 146
14. Afterword 167
15. NOTES 171
16. WORKS CITED 189
17. INDEX 199