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Dear Subscribers, We would like to announce a new publication from Cornell University Press, which we hope will be of interest. [The Masses Are Revolting]The Masses Are Revolting Victorian Culture and the Political Aesthetics of Disgust Zachary Samalin https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501756467/the-masses-are-revolting/ Available in print and digital formats Receive a 20% discount online*: CSLF2021 *Valid until 11:59 GMT, 30th June 2022. Discount only applies to the CAP website. The Masses Are Revolting reconstructs a pivotal era in the history of affect and emotion, delving into an archive of nineteenth-century disgust to show how this negative emotional response came to play an outsized, volatile part in the emergence of modern British society. Attending to the emotion’s socially productive role, Zachary Samalin highlights concrete scenes of Victorian disgust, from sewer tunnels and courtrooms to operating tables and alleyways. Samalin focuses on a diverse set of nineteenth-century writers and thinkers—including Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, and Charlotte Brontë—whose works reflect on the shifting, unstable meaning of disgust across the period. Samalin elaborates this cultural history of Victorian disgust in specific domains of British society, ranging from the construction of London’s sewer system, the birth of modern obscenity law, and the development of the conventions of literary realism to the emergence of urban sociology, the rise of new scientific theories of instinct, and the techniques of colonial administration developed during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. By bringing to light disgust’s role as a public passion, The Masses Are Revolting reveals significant new connections among these apparently disconnected forms of social control, knowledge production, and infrastructural development. Zachary Samalin is Assistant Professor of English at New York University. His research and writing focuses on the literature and culture of the nineteenth century, affect theory and the history of emotions, and the history of literary and critical theory. With all best wishes, Combined Academic Publishers Cornell University Press | September 2021 | 342pp | 9781501756467 | HB | £34.00* *Price subject to change. The ebook version of this title available through all major digital vendors and retailers. If you wish to purchase this title for your library then please contact your library supplier. For more information on ebook purchasing please follow this link - https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ebooks/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ENGLIT-VICTORIAN list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=ENGLIT-VICTORIAN&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ENGLIT-VICTORIAN, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/