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.
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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.


Electronic books.

PR8477 / .F55 2005eb

820.9/32421