Filth dirt, disgust, and modern life / [electronic resource] :
William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, editors.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- xxxvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Good and intimate filth / The new historicism and the psychopathology of everyday modern life / Sewage treatments : vertical space and waste in nineteenth-century Paris and London / Medical mapping : the Thames, the body, and our mutual friend / Confronting sensory crisis in the great stinks of London and Paris / Victorian dust traps / "Dirty pleasure" : Trilby's filth / Merdre! performing filth in the bourgeois public sphere / Foreign matter : imperial filth / The dustbins of history : waste management in late-Victorian utopias / The Indian subject of colonial hygiene / Abject academy / Christopher Hamlin -- David Trotter -- David L. Pike -- Pamela K. Gilbert -- David S. Barnes -- Eileen Cleere -- Joseph Bristow -- Neil Blackadder -- Joseph W. Childers -- Natalka Freeland -- William Kupinse -- Benjamin Lazier.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
DNLM
English literature--History and criticism.--England--London French literature--History and criticism.--France--Paris English literature--History and criticism.--19th century French literature--History and criticism.--19th century 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 century.