Contents -- Preface -- Introduction Dark Ecologies:A Tale of Two Cities and " The Cow With the Iron Tail" -- Milk and Water: The Body and Social Space in Dickens -- Disavowing Milk Psychic Disintegration and Domestic Reintegration in Dickens's Dombey and Son -- A River Runs through Him Our Mutual Friend and the Embankment of the Thames -- Driving Human Destiny: George Eliot and the Problematics of Flow -- Perilous Reversals Fluid Exchange in George Eliot's Early Works -- Merging With Others Destiny and Flow in Daniel Deronda -- Soldiers and Mothers: Nursing the Empire in George Moore's Esther Waters and Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Tempted by the Milk of Another The Fantasy of Limited Circulation in Esther Waters -- Ever-Widening Circulations Dracula and the Fear of Management -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.