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

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

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.

Description:

xxxvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary:

Focusing on 'filth' in literary & cultural materials from London, Paris & their colonial outposts in the 19th & early 20th centuries, the essays in this volume range over topics from the building of sewers to the fictional representation of labouring women as polluting.

ISBN:

0816642990 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816642991 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816643008 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780816643004 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

English literature England London History and criticism.
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.
Social ecology.
Urban Health history
Sanitation history
Refuse Disposal history
Literature, Modern history
Social Environment
History, 19th Century
Littérature anglaise Angleterre Londres Histoire et critique.
Littérature française France Paris Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Littérature française 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Déchets Élimination Histoire 19e siècle.
Déchets Élimination, dans la littérature.
Santé urbaine Histoire 19e siècle.
Salubrité publique Histoire 19e siècle.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Écologie sociale.
Médecine Histoire 19e siècle.
human ecology.
English literature
French literature
Manners and customs
Refuse and refuse disposal
Sanitation
Urban health
London (England) Social life and customs 19th century.
Paris (France) Social life and customs 19th century.
London
Paris
Londres (Angleterre) Mœurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
Paris (France) Mœurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
England London
France Paris

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Cohen, William A.
Johnson, Ryan, 1968-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237528
Call No.: PR8477 .F55 2005
Status: Available

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