The mataphor of the circulation of blood around the body has often seemed a useful way of conceiving social and economic processes. In the 18th and 19th centuries it shaped investigations into a wide range of issues: national and international trade, colonization, urban development, education, sanitary reform, crime and detection, the interpretation of signs, sexuality. Drawing on literary and non-literary texts, this book examines the power the metaphor gave to writers and social theories, and the imaginings it made possible.
- ISBN10 0333405420
- ISBN13 9780333405420
- Publish Date 29 August 1988 (first published 1 January 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English