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Filth : dirt, disgust, and modern life / William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--England--London--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- French literature--France--Paris--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- 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.
- Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.
- Urban health--History--19th century.
- Urban health.
- Sanitation--History--19th century.
- Sanitation.
- 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).
- Physical Description:
- xxxvii, 317 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost, the rejected, the abject, and the dirty play in social management and identity formation.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9568-7
- OCLC:
- 191935379
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