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

Contributor(s): Cohen, William A | Johnson, Ryan, 1968- | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005Description: xxxvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): 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 | London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century | Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 820.9/32421 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.