Filth : dirt, disgust, and modern life / William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, William A.

Johnson, Ryan, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--England--London--History and criticism.

English literature.

Sanitation.

History.

Urban health.

Refuse and refuse disposal.

French literature.

England--London.

French literature--France--Paris--History and criticism.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Refuse and refuse disposal--History--19th century.

Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.

Urban health--History--19th century.

Sanitation--History--19th century.

City and town life in literature.

London (England)--Social life and customs--19th century.

London (England).

Paris (France)--Social life and customs--19th century.

Paris (France).

France--Paris.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]

Summary:

Focusing on filth in literary and cultural materials from London, Paris, and their colonial outposts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the essays in Filth range over topics as diverse as the building of sewers in European metropolises, fictional representations of laboring women and foreigners as polluters, and relations among disease, disorder, and sexual-racial disharmony. Filth is the first sustained consideration of a subject whose power to horrify, fascinate, and repel is as old as civilization itself.

Contents:

Good and intimate filth / Christopher Hamlin

The new historicism and the psychopathology of everyday modern life / David Trotter

Sewage treatments : vertical space and waste in nineteenth-century Paris and London / David L. Pike

Medical mapping : the Thames, the body, and Our mutual friend / Pamela K. Gilbert

Confronting sensory crisis in the great stinks of London and Paris / David S. Barnes

Victorian dust traps / Eileen Cleere

"Dirty pleasure" : Trilby's filth / Joseph Bristow

Merdre! : performing filth in the bourgeois public sphere / Neil Blackadder

Foreign matter : imperial filth / Joseph W. Childers

The dustbins of history: waste management in late-Victorian utopias / Natalka Freeland

The Indian subject of colonial hygiene / William Kupinse

Abject academy / Benjamin Lazier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0816642990

0816643008

OCLC:

55645012